Founded upon the
Spanish word ‘picaroon’ meaning a rogue the picaresque novel usually consists
of a series of loosely connected episodes in the manner of journeys, which are
the picaroon’s many adventures. In a picaresque novel, therefore, the author generally uses a first- person narrative,
relating the adventures of a rogue or low- born adventures the drifts from
place to place and from one social milieu to another in his effort to service. In
its episodic structure...
