Retablo de picardías di Manuel Barrios: un esempio di picaresca contemporanea

• Main Author: Luca Maramotti
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: University of Bologna 2010-12-01
• Series: Confluenze
• Subjects: Barrios; picaresca; pícaro; contemporaneousness; hunger
• Online Access: http://confluenze.unibo.it/article/view/2012

Unfortunately, so far, it has been impossible to produce an exact definition of literatura picaresca, or of the features which constitute the literary material of this genre. However, we want to establish a relationship between traditional picaresca and contemporary instances of the same genre. It will be therefore possible, by diachronically comparing the novels, to isolate the typical features of contemporary picaresca, giving prominence to the effectiveness and the “contemporaneousness” of the main tool in literatura picaresca: the pícaro.