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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Yovanovich considers the genre in relation to the concept of play and shows how the traditional picaresque genre has been replaced by a distinctly modern version.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

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 25 December 1999
      ISBN-13 9780802047045
      978-0802047045
      ISBN-10 0802047041

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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Yovanovich considers the genre in relation to the concept of play and shows how the traditional picaresque genre has been replaced by a distinctly modern version.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

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