ピカレスク小しょう説せつ

noun

picaresque novel

A genre of prose fiction depicting the adventures of a roguish but appealing hero, often of low social class, who lives by their wits in a corrupt society.

• 『ドン・キホーテ』はピカレスク小しょう説せつの先さき駆がけと見みなされることがある。

  Don Quixote is sometimes considered a forerunner of the picaresque novel.

• このピカレスク小しょう説せつは、主しゅ人じん公こうが次つぎ々つぎと悪あく事じを働はたらきながら旅たびをする話はなしだ。

  This picaresque novel is a story in which the protagonist travels while committing one misdeed after another.