ピカレスク

noun

picaresque novel

Refers to a genre of fiction featuring a roguish hero's episodic adventures, often satirical. Used as a noun or in compounds like ピカレスク小説.

• 彼かれの新しん作さくは現げん代だいのピカレスクと言いえるだろう。

  His new work could be called a modern picaresque.

• ピカレスク小しょう説せつの主しゅ人じん公こうは、たいてい社しゃ会かいの底てい辺へんを渡わたり歩あるく。

  The protagonist of a picaresque novel usually wanders through the lower rungs of society.