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All Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Fiction organized around satire, the picaresque rogue's-progress narrative, the absurd, or a framing device that gathers many tales into one, including the maqama form. Belongs here: satirical prose and verse, the picaresque novel, absurdist narrative and the great frame-tale collections. Does not belong here: a work that is comic only incidentally within an otherwise realist narrative, which stays classed by its own dominant genre instead.

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All Satirical and Picaresque Fiction
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A Confederacy of Dunces

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Being There

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Candide

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Catch-22

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Cat's Cradle

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Dead Souls

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Diary of a Nobody

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

El Criticón

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

El diablo cojuelo

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Erewhon

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Estebanillo González

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Gulliver's Travels

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Guzman de Alfarache

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Jacques the Fatalist

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Lazarillo de Tormes

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Maqamat Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Moll Flanders

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Noli Me Tangere

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

One Thousand and One Nights

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Sartor Resartus

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Satyricon

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Scoop

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Simplicius Simplicissimus

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Canterbury Tales

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Confidence-Man

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Decameron

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Good Soldier Svejk

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Loved One

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Master and Margarita

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Metamorphosis

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Panchatantra

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Pickwick Papers

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Rape of the Lock

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Scholars

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Swindler

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Time Regulation Institute

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Trial

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The True Story of Ah Q

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Twelve Chairs

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

The Wind Done Gone

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Three Men in a Boat

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

Vanity Fair

Satirical and Picaresque Fiction
Sources
1. Picaresque Novel (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Picaresque novel, lead section, Lazarillo de Tormes origin sentence
Quote, Picaresque novel, lead section, Lazarillo de Tormes origin sentence
The picaresque genre began with the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), which was published anonymously during the Spanish Golden Age because of its anticlerical content.
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