Download or read book Tales from Spanish Picaresque Novels written by James Wesley Childers and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story motifs from all of the thirty major picaresque novels of Spain's Golden Age present the picaro as a nomadic rogue who survived by cleverness and deception. Though his tricks constitute the main interest in the novels, the picaro's satirical comments give a wealth of information on the social, political and religious background of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain. This motif-index, based on the classification system of Stith Thompson, includes an informative and analytical Introduction and a Summary which precisely categorizes the appearance of various motifs.