picaresque Definition

dishonorable, dishonest, bildungsroman, narrative, tale, digressive, noirish, travelogue, novella, fable, seriocomic, autobiographical, pastiche, semiautobiographical, magic realism, protagonist, prose, poetic, absurdist, fictional, elegiac, fabulist, dickensian, novelette, prose poem, fantastical, novelistic, phantasmagoric, roundelay, digressions, overdetermined, demimonde, shavian, engagingly, tragicomedy, fictive, hemingwayesque, longueur, magic realist, dostoevskian, melancholic, seriocomedy, unheroic, potboiler, nabokovian, lugubrious, meandering, engrossing, beguiling, raffish, limns, fantasia, incantatory, droll, fin de siecle, appealingly, grand guignol, jaunty, stageplay, broodingly, rabelaisian, swiftian, idiosyncratic, feydeau, marivaux, jamesian, roistering, discursive, evocation, pulpier, charming, fascinatingly, narrator, ford madox ford, flaubert, sophoclean, oater, didacticism, impressionistic, melodrama, wordsworthian, absorbingly, talky, epigraph, laurence sterne, zestily, italo calvino, overfamiliar, pathos, larky, mordant, doubleness, sentimentalized, divertingly, imagistic, captivatingly, poeticism, compendious, antic, antihero,