Play and the Picaresque - Lazarillo De Tormes, Libro De Manuel and Match Ball

Informationen zum Autor Gordana Yovanovich is Associate Professor at the University of Guelph and author of Julio Cortázar's Character Mosaic. Klappentext This study takes a fresh look at the picaresque genre as seen in three important contemporary Latin American novels, Cortázar's Libro de Manuel, Skármeta's Match Ball, and the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes. Gordana Yovanovich considers the genre in relation to the concept of play and shows how the traditional picaresque genre has been replaced by a distinctly modern version. Play and the Picaresque contends that within Latin American culture humour and play serve as forms of empowerment and means of survival for those who are marginalized in society. Like the pícaros of sixteenth-century Spanish novels, the proletarian characters in the Latin American fiction known as Magical Realism embody a playful and spontaneous approach to life and literature. The relationship of the magical to the real in Latin American fiction is, the book argues, comparable to the 'let's pretend' world and toys in play. The act of playing and living in these novels is a re-creative experience - a concept which has not been adequately explored in contemporary criticism. Zusammenfassung Analyses three important Latin American novels in an attempt to redefine the nature of the picaresque! especially in regard to the roles of spontaneous play and carnivalesque laughter.

Product details

• Authors: Gordana Yovanovich
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.12.1999
• EAN: 9780802047045
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-4704-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous