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en-wikipedia-org-8399		Picaresque novel - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4166	487	67	The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. In the English-speaking world, the term "picaresque" is often used loosely to refer to novels that contain some elements of this genre; e.g. an episodic recounting of adventures on the road.[citation needed] It describes the devastation caused by the Thirty Years' War. Le Sage's Gil Blas (1715) is a classic example of the genre,[23] which in France had declined into an aristocratic adventure.[citation needed] In Britain, the first example is Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) in which a court page, Jack Wilson, exposes the underclass life in a string of European cities through lively, often brutal descriptions.[24] The body of Tobias Smollett's work, and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) are considered picaresque, but they lack the sense of religious redemption of delinquency that was very important in Spanish and German novels.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8399.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8399.txt