Home›Satirical and Picaresque Fiction›FormBrowse ByFormFactsFormSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1554 1FormFilter Results4 entriesGenreAllAbsurdist Fiction (2)Black Comedy (1)Fable (1)Fantasy (1)Frame Tale Collection (2)Historical Fiction (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Satire (2)Science Fiction (1)Short Fiction (1)The Novel (2)The Picaresque Novel (1)Tragicomedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (1)War Novel (1)Young Adult Fiction (1)AuthorAllAhmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1)Alice Randall (1)Baltasar Gracián (1)Charles Dickens (1)Daniel Defoe (1)Denis Diderot (1)Franz Kafka (2)François Rabelais (1)Geoffrey Chaucer (1)George Grossmith (1)Giovanni Boccaccio (1)Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1)Henry Fielding (1)Herman Melville (1)Ilya Ilf (1)Jerome K. Jerome (1)Jerzy Kosiński (1)John Kennedy Toole (1)Jonathan Swift (1)Joseph Heller (1)José Rizal (1)Kaavya Viswanathan (1)Kurt Vonnegut (1)Laurence Sterne (1)Lu Xun (1)Luis Vélez de Guevara (1)Mark Twain (2)Mateo Alemán (1)Mikhail Bulgakov (1)Nikolai Gogol (1)Rudolf Erich Raspe (1)Samuel Butler (1)Thomas Carlyle (1)Vishnu Sharma (1)Voltaire (1)Weedon Grossmith (1)William Makepeace Thackeray (1)Wu Jingzi (1)Yevgeny Petrov (1)Composition YearAll-300 (1)1348 (1)1353 (1)1387 (1)1532 (1)1554 (1)1599 (1)1637 (1)1641 (1)1651 (1)1668 (1)1722 (1)1726 (1)1749 (1)1750 (1)1759 (2)1785 (1)1796 (1)1830 (1)1833 (1)1836 (1)1842 (1)1844 (1)1848 (1)1857 (1)1872 (1)1884 (1)1887 (1)1888 (1)1889 (1)1892 (1)1900 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1921 (1)1925 (1)1927 (1)1928 (1)1954 (1)1961 (1)1963 (1)1967 (1)1970 (1)1980 (1)2001 (1)2006 (1)Original LanguageAllBulgarian (1)English (3)French (2)German (2)Italian (1)Romanian (1)Russian (1)Sanskrit (1)Sinitic (2)Spanish (2)Turkish (1)Country of OriginAllAustria (2)China (1)England (1)France (2)Germany (1)India (1)Italy (1)Philippines (1)Qing dynasty (1)Russia (1)Soviet Union (1)Spain (2)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (2)AudienceAllChildren's (2)General (4)Young Adult (1)AwardAllPulitzer Prize for Fiction (1)Length BandAllEpic (Over 600 Pages) (1)Novel (3)Short (Under 100 Pages) (1)Setting Country or PlaceAllLondon (1)United States (1)ModeAllProse (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareThe Frame NarrativeForm1 entryThe NovelForm32 entriesThe NovellaForm5 entriesThe Short StoryForm2 entriesSources1. Picaresque Novel (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Picaresque novel, lead section, Lazarillo de Tormes origin sentenceQuote, Picaresque novel, lead section, Lazarillo de Tormes origin sentenceThe 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.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.