picaresque

an episode in a picaresque novel.

流浪汉小说的一个片断

picaresque novels; waifs of the picaresque tradition; a picaresque hero.

奇小说；奇小说的流浪者形象；奇式的英雄。

waifs of the picaresque tradition;

奇小说的流浪者形象；

a paper tracing the descent of the novel from old picaresque tales.

追溯古老的奇故事演化到小说的论文

this novel also follows and yet ironizes many of the conventions of the picaresque narrative.

这部小说虽落了流浪汉题材小说的许多俗套，但也讽刺了这些俗套。