Editing Picaresque novel (section)

===20th and 21st centuries===
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''[[Kvachi Kvachantiradze]]'' is a novel by [[Mikheil Javakhishvili]] published in 1924. This is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian [[Confessions of Felix Krull|Felix Krull]], or perhaps a cynical [[Don Quixote]], named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, associate of Rasputin, filmmaker, revolutionary, and pimp.

''[[The Twelve Chairs]]'' (1928) and its sequel, ''[[The Little Golden Calf]]'' (1931), by [[Ilya Ilf]] and [[Yevgeni Petrov (writer)|Yevgeni Petrov]] (together known as [[Ilf and Petrov]]) became classics of 20th-century [[Russian literature|Russian]] satire and the basis for [[The Twelve Chairs (disambiguation)|numerous film adaptations]].

[[Camilo José Cela]]'s ''[[The Family of Pascual Duarte]]'' (1942),<ref>{{Citation|last=Godsland|first=Shelley|title=The neopicaresque: The picaresque myth in the twentieth-century novel|date=2015|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/picaresque-novel-in-western-literature/neopicaresque/0DFBEE29CB4D6C25A7F156D256404CFA|work=The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque|pages=247–268|editor-last=Garrido Ardila|editor-first=J. A.|place=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-03165-4|access-date=2021-03-11}}</ref> [[Ralph Ellison]]'s ''[[Invisible Man]]'' (1952) and ''[[The Adventures of Augie March]]'' by [[Saul Bellow]] (1953) were also among mid-twentieth-century picaresque literature.<ref>{{Cite thesis |degree=Master |last=Deters|first=Mary E.|date=1969|title=A Study of the Picaresque Novel in Twentieth-Century America |publisher=Wisconsin State University |url=https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/48359|language=en-US}}</ref> [[John A. Lee]]'s ''[[Shining with the Shiner]]'' (1944) tells amusing tales about New Zealand folk hero [[Edmond Slattery|Ned Slattery]] (1840–1927) surviving by his wits and beating the '[[Protestant work ethic]]'. So too is [[Thomas Mann]]'s ''[[Confessions of Felix Krull]]'' (1954), which like many novels emphasizes the theme of a charmingly roguish ascent in the social order. ''[[Under the Net]]'' (1954) by [[Iris Murdoch]],{{efn|Chosen by ''Time'' magazine and Modern Library editors as one of the greatest English-language novels of the 20th century. See [[Under the Net]].}} [[Günter Grass]]'s ''[[The Tin Drum]]'' (1959) is a German picaresque novel. [[John Barth]]'s ''[[The Sot-Weed Factor (1960 novel)|The Sot-Weed Factor]]'' (1960) is a picaresque novel that parodies the [[historical novel]] and uses [[black humor]] by intentionally incorrectly using [[literary device]]s.<ref name="Merriam-Webster 1995. Page 3"/>

Other examples from the 1960s and 1970s include [[Jerzy Kosinski]]'s ''[[The Painted Bird]]'' (1965), [[Vladimir Voinovich]]'s ''[[The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin]]'' (1969), and [[Arto Paasilinna]]'s ''[[The Year of the Hare (novel)|The Year of the Hare]]'' (1975).

Examples from the 1980s include [[John Kennedy Toole]]'s novel ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'', which was published in 1980, eleven years after the author's suicide, and won the 1981 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]. It follows the adventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, a well-educated but lazy and obese slob, as he attempts to find stable employment in New Orleans and meets many colorful characters along the way. 

Later examples include [[Umberto Eco]]'s ''[[Baudolino]]'' (2000),<ref>As expressed by the author {{Cite periodical |periodical=The Modern World | title = With Baudolino, Eco Returns to Romance Writing| date = 11 September 2000| url = http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_repubblica_00_baud.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060906080208/http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_repubblica_00_baud.html| archive-date = 6 September 2006}}</ref> and [[Aravind Adiga]]'s ''[[The White Tiger (Adiga novel)|The White Tiger]]'' (Booker Prize 2008).<ref name = sanderson>{{cite news| newspaper = Telegraph|location=UK | title = The picaresque, in detail|date=4 November 2003| access-date = March 16, 2010| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3605787/The-picaresque-in-detail.html| first = Mark| last = Sanderson}}</ref>

[[William S. Burroughs]] was a devoted fan of picaresque novels, and gave a series of lectures involving the topic in 1979 at [[Naropa University]] in Colorado. He says it is impossible to separate the [[anti-hero]] from the picaresque novel, that most of these are funny, and they all have protagonists who are outsiders by their nature. His list of picaresque novels includes Petronius' novel ''[[Satyricon]]'' (54–68 AD), ''[[The Unfortunate Traveller]]'' (1594) by Thomas Nashe, both ''[[Maiden Voyage (novel)|Maiden Voyage]]'' (1943) and ''[[A Voice Through a Cloud]]'' (1950) by [[Denton Welch]], ''[[Two Serious Ladies]]'' (1943) by [[Jane Bowles]], ''[[Death on Credit]]'' (1936) by [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]], and even himself.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/4d3fDtxCiAQ Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509142235/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d3fDtxCiAQ&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d3fDtxCiAQ|title=Class On Creative Reading – William S. Burroughs – 2/3|last=NewThinkable|date=7 March 2013|access-date=14 March 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In contemporary Latin American literature, there are [[Manuel Rojas (author)|Manuel Rojas]]' ''[[Hijo de ladrón]]'' (1951), [[Joaquín Edwards Bello|Joaquín Edwards]]' ''El roto'' (1968), [[Elena Poniatowska]]'s ''Hasta no verte Jesús mío'' (1969), [[Luis Zapata (writer)|Luis Zapata]]'s ''[[El vampiro de la colonia Roma|Las aventuras, desventuras y sueños de Adonis García, el vampiro de la colonia Roma]]'' (1978) and [[José Baroja]]'s ''Un hijo de perra'' (2017), among others.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Sobre la picaresca en Hispanoamérica|last=Fernández|first=Teodosio|year=2001|hdl=10486/670544|hdl-access=free|journal=Edad de Oro|volume=XX|pages=95–104|language=es|issn=0212-0429}}</ref>

====Works influenced by the picaresque====

* [[Jaroslav Hašek]]'s ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]'' (1923) is an example of a work from Central Europe that has picaresque elements.<ref name="Weitzman 2006 pp. 117–148">{{cite journal | last=Weitzman | first=Erica | title=Imperium Stupidum: Švejk, Satire, Sabotage, Sabotage | journal=Law and Literature | publisher=University of California Press | volume=18 | issue=2 | year=2006 | issn=1535-685X | doi=10.1525/lal.2006.18.2.117 | pages=117–148| s2cid=144736158 }}</ref>
* [[J. B. Priestley]] made use of the form in his ''[[The Good Companions]]'' (1929), which won the [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for Fiction.
* [[Fritz Leiber]]'s [[sword and sorcery]] series of novels, ''[[Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser]]'', are considered to have many picaresque elements, and are sometimes described as picaresque on the whole.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfsite.com/07a/fgm131.htm|title=The First & Second Books of Lankhmar|last=Thompson|first=William|date=2014|website=SF Site|access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://totally-epic.kwakk.info/2020/03/27/1990-fafhrd-and-the-gray-mouser/|title=1990: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser|date=27 May 2020|website=Totally Epic|publisher=Epic Comics|access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://speculiction.blogspot.com/2012/11/review-of-first-book-of-lankhmar-by.html|title=Review of "The First Book of Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber|date=8 November 2012|website=Speculiction|access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theoutcastrogue.tumblr.com/post/640310065062182912/besides-the-mafia-what-exactly-is-a-thieves|title=we ARE Rogue|date=14 January 2021|website=The Outcast Rogue|publisher=Tumblr|access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[Hannah Tinti]]'s novel ''[[The Good Thief (novel)|The Good Thief]]'' (2008) features a young, one-handed orphan who craves a family, and finds one in a group of rogues and misfits.