...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Picaresque
- 198 statements
- 38 feature instances
- 11 referencing feature instances
| Picaresque | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Picaresque | label |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque | page |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque | comment |
Picaresque is a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society. A traditional picaresque is often a "Shaggy Dog" Story and/or has a Random Events Plot. Elements of the picaresque frequently show up in Cyberpunk stories. The plots are often episodic, and there's very little in the vein of a main quest narrative, and as such most picaresque narratives usually have a few stock characters who weave in and weave out. |
|
| Picaresque | fetched |
2023-06-05T14:28:57Z | |
| Picaresque | parsed |
2023-06-05T14:28:57Z | |
| Picaresque | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheDecemberists: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Picaresque | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Picaresque / int_2124794 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_2124794 | comment |
The Satyricon | |
| Picaresque / int_2124794 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_2124794 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Satyricon | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_2124794 | |
| Picaresque / int_261c8d3f | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_261c8d3f | comment |
The Simpsons has many elements of the picaresque genre: Both Homer and Bart are notorious underperformers who avoid hard work and shirk their duties whenever possible, are generally irresponsible, treat their fellow men shabbily and take refuge to lies when it suits them, all the while being not especially bright. Yet they somehow always manage to avoid all serious consequences of their foolishness or egoism and are likable characters despite their many flaws. | |
| Picaresque / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Simpsons | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_261c8d3f | |
| Picaresque / int_29a0db82 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_29a0db82 | comment |
The Good Soldier Švejk: Random Events Plot centered on the certified idiot surviving by Obfuscating Stupidity (or real one — the jury's still out) and tall tales he tells. | |
| Picaresque / int_29a0db82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_29a0db82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Good Soldier Å vejk | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_29a0db82 | |
| Picaresque / int_2a54016d | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_2a54016d | comment |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
| Picaresque / int_2a54016d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_2a54016d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_2a54016d | |
| Picaresque / int_2aca2027 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_2aca2027 | comment |
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, set in the Thirty Years' War, based on Landstörtzerin Courasche, another novel by the author of Simplicissimus. | |
| Picaresque / int_2aca2027 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_2aca2027 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| MotherCourageAndHerChildren | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_2aca2027 | |
| Picaresque / int_30ad4e9 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_30ad4e9 | comment |
Candide | |
| Picaresque / int_30ad4e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_30ad4e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Candide | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_30ad4e9 | |
| Picaresque / int_33dd1d90 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_33dd1d90 | comment |
Half-Life 2 and its episodes (particularly 2) features a fairly episodic plot as Gordon drives around the eastern European coast, encountering a variety of self-contained side stories and vignettes. Episode 2 in particular features a wider variety of social commentary thanks to its greater cross section of characters of differing social standing. | |
| Picaresque / int_33dd1d90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_33dd1d90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Half-Life 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_33dd1d90 | |
| Picaresque / int_3501cc23 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_3501cc23 | comment |
The Gentleman Bastard series | |
| Picaresque / int_3501cc23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_3501cc23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gentleman Bastard | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_3501cc23 | |
| Picaresque / int_413aa2f7 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_413aa2f7 | comment |
Don Quixote has some elements of this genre and is seen as picareque by non-Spanish speakers for its episodic plot and its Nested Story sequence. Spanish-speakers feel it's more an inversionnote They note that as a hidalgo and aristocrat, Don Quixote/Alonso Quijano is not a typical picaresque character who comes from the low-orders. They also note that Don Quixote has an idealistic view and goal, he's out to help the innocents and defend the weak as a knight should, rather than con and cheat to survive. More or less the quest of Don Quixote is to try and remain idealistic, or insanely so, while the world grows more roguish, more cruel, and sadistic as the plot goes on. | |
| Picaresque / int_413aa2f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_413aa2f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Don Quixote | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_413aa2f7 | |
| Picaresque / int_420813c4 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_420813c4 | comment |
Moll Flanders | |
| Picaresque / int_420813c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_420813c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Moll Flanders | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_420813c4 | |
| Picaresque / int_468bebb0 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_468bebb0 | comment |
The Rincewind books in the Discworld series. Rincewind is basically just a (mostly) selfish coward who travels around trying to survive the weird stuff happening around him. | |
| Picaresque / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Discworld | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_468bebb0 | |
| Picaresque / int_492d7923 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_492d7923 | comment |
Cloud Atlas: Somni describes 'The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish' as such. | |
| Picaresque / int_492d7923 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_492d7923 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cloud Atlas | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_492d7923 | |
| Picaresque / int_4a08bb32 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_4a08bb32 | comment |
Baudolino | |
| Picaresque / int_4a08bb32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_4a08bb32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Baudolino | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_4a08bb32 | |
| Picaresque / int_56cb92c3 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_56cb92c3 | comment |
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. II: Both films contain elements of the genre, especially with the episodic plotlines (either film can be watched without any context from the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe), the roguish protagonists (the Guardians have their own individual charges but as of their inception, they are technically mercenaries) and comedic overtones. | |
| Picaresque / int_56cb92c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_56cb92c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_56cb92c3 | |
| Picaresque / int_576dc00b | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_576dc00b | comment |
Simplicius Simplicissimus (the English title of Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus), one of the earliest true novels in the German language. | |
| Picaresque / int_576dc00b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_576dc00b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Simplicissimus | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_576dc00b | |
| Picaresque / int_5921531c | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_5921531c | comment |
Persona 5: High school Japanese Delinquents become Picaresque thieves to Heel Face Brainwash the corrupt, while referencing quite a lot of other Picaresque stories. | |
| Picaresque / int_5921531c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_5921531c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Persona 5 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_5921531c | |
| Picaresque / int_5ac04859 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_5ac04859 | comment |
Deeper Up the Tower uses this episodic, chaotic, somewhat whimsical style to tell a story of Florian, a knight wandering through the trippy, magical Tower, having dream-like adventures on the way. | |
| Picaresque / int_5ac04859 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_5ac04859 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Deeper Up the Tower | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_5ac04859 | |
| Picaresque / int_5af3586e | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_5af3586e | comment |
The Procession To Calvary is the story of a Sociopathic Soldier getting into various surreal situations and outsmarting characters in a journey across Crapsack World. | |
| Picaresque / int_5af3586e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_5af3586e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Procession To Calvary (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_5af3586e | |
| Picaresque / int_5c40c4a3 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_5c40c4a3 | comment |
All of the Dollars Trilogy, especially The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. | |
| Picaresque / int_5c40c4a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_5c40c4a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dollars Trilogy | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_5c40c4a3 | |
| Picaresque / int_5e27bca7 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_5e27bca7 | comment |
O Lucky Man!: A deeply cynical film about how humans are craven and selfish, with a protagonist who's buffeted by events, wandering through a Random Events Plot in which he has a series of bizarre adventures. Like blundering into an Army base where he's arrested as a spy, or volunteering to be a subject for a medical experiment only to find that it's a Mad Scientist's lair and the mad scientist is creating freakish pig-men. | |
| Picaresque / int_5e27bca7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_5e27bca7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| O Lucky Man! | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_5e27bca7 | |
| Picaresque / int_60381be1 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_60381be1 | comment |
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, about three buffoonish escaped criminals stumbling from adventure to adventure | |
| Picaresque / int_60381be1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_60381be1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_60381be1 | |
| Picaresque / int_6054fe32 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_6054fe32 | comment |
''Fly by Night'' and ''Fly Trap/Twilight Robbery'' by Frances Hardinge | |
| Picaresque / int_6054fe32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_6054fe32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fly by Night Series | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_6054fe32 | |
| Picaresque / int_647c4c37 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_647c4c37 | comment |
Under the Net | |
| Picaresque / int_647c4c37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_647c4c37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Under the Net | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_647c4c37 | |
| Picaresque / int_648ba744 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_648ba744 | comment |
Middlesex | |
| Picaresque / int_648ba744 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_648ba744 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Middlesex | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_648ba744 | |
| Picaresque / int_8b5c8e75 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_8b5c8e75 | comment |
The Lay of Paul Twister mixes elements of this genre in with High Fantasy and Trapped in Another World. | |
| Picaresque / int_8b5c8e75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_8b5c8e75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lay of Paul Twister | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_8b5c8e75 | |
| Picaresque / int_8dab2e34 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_8dab2e34 | comment |
Lazarillo De Tormes is generally considered the first of this genre. | |
| Picaresque / int_8dab2e34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_8dab2e34 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lazarillo De Tormes | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_8dab2e34 | |
| Picaresque / int_9ec7bc59 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_9ec7bc59 | comment |
Life of Pi | |
| Picaresque / int_9ec7bc59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_9ec7bc59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Life of Pi | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_9ec7bc59 | |
| Picaresque / int_a8ed7d48 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_a8ed7d48 | comment |
Confessions of Felix Krull | |
| Picaresque / int_a8ed7d48 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_a8ed7d48 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Confessions Of Felix Krull | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_a8ed7d48 | |
| Picaresque / int_a9e19ff0 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_a9e19ff0 | comment |
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe | |
| Picaresque / int_a9e19ff0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_a9e19ff0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Book of the New Sun | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_a9e19ff0 | |
| Picaresque / int_b1072514 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_b1072514 | comment |
Forrest Gump, though the novel is much more clearly in the genre than the movie. | |
| Picaresque / int_b1072514 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_b1072514 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Forrest Gump | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_b1072514 | |
| Picaresque / int_bb797bc0 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_bb797bc0 | comment |
The Journey of Natty Gann is about a teenage girl travelling across America during The Great Depression, getting into scrapes and adventures along the way | |
| Picaresque / int_bb797bc0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_bb797bc0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Journey of Natty Gann | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_bb797bc0 | |
| Picaresque / int_bf71f0c3 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_bf71f0c3 | comment |
Peer Gynt, with occasional Low Fantasy elements. | |
| Picaresque / int_bf71f0c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_bf71f0c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Peer Gynt (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_bf71f0c3 | |
| Picaresque / int_d0dde34a | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_d0dde34a | comment |
Little Big Man. | |
| Picaresque / int_d0dde34a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_d0dde34a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Big Man | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_d0dde34a | |
| Picaresque / int_e144ba19 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_e144ba19 | comment |
Dragon Age II has elements of this. The protagonist and their family are refugees in the city of Kirkwall, simply trying to make their way in the world for most of the game. Over time, as the main character becomes more important and powerful within the city, a main story arc does emerge from the big world-shaking events you sometimes have to deal with, but the bulk of the story is spent on subplots and side adventures. | |
| Picaresque / int_e144ba19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_e144ba19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragon Age II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_e144ba19 | |
| Picaresque / int_e7d67cd3 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_e7d67cd3 | comment |
The Code Geass OST song Picaresque (which could double as an ImageSong for Lelouch) is probably named for this genre, considering the kind of world that Lelouch lives in, and his own way of fighting it. | |
| Picaresque / int_e7d67cd3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_e7d67cd3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Code Geass (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_e7d67cd3 | |
| Picaresque / int_e8ac3eea | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_e8ac3eea | comment |
The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance | |
| Picaresque / int_e8ac3eea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_e8ac3eea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dying Earth | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_e8ac3eea | |
| Picaresque / int_ea9fbae2 | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_ea9fbae2 | comment |
The Reivers, in which a roguish stablehand steals his boss's automobile and drives it from small-town Mississippi to Memphis in order to talk a prostitute into marrying him. | |
| Picaresque / int_ea9fbae2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_ea9fbae2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Reivers | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_ea9fbae2 | |
| Picaresque / int_eb66065e | type |
Picaresque | |
| Picaresque / int_eb66065e | comment |
A Confederacy of Dunces | |
| Picaresque / int_eb66065e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Picaresque / int_eb66065e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | hasFeature |
Picaresque / int_eb66065e |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
| Picaresque | processingCategory2 |
Genre Tropes | |
| Picaresque | processingCategory2 |
Literature Genres | |
| O Lucky Man! / int_1c5c049d | type |
Picaresque | |
| The Story of a Cheat / int_1c5c049d | type |
Picaresque | |
| Confessions Of Felix Krull | seeAlso |
Picaresque | |
| Don Quixote / int_1c5c049d | type |
Picaresque | |
| Gentleman Bastard / int_1c5c049d | type |
Picaresque | |
| Sharpe / int_1c5c049d | type |
Picaresque | |
| Simplicissimus / int_1c5c049d | type |
Picaresque | |
| The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1c5c049d | type |
Picaresque | |
| The Reivers / int_1c5c049d | type |
Picaresque |
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.