picaro

Nothing but a general will do for the picaro - well, he shall have a general to talk to.

What Morley has achieved is the apotheosis of the picaro.

Monk immediately knows who did it, and how: Picaro herself, despite being operated on at the time.

(5) The picaro's story is told with a plainness of language or realism.

The word picaro starts to first appear in Spain with the current meaning in 1545.

Yet Pedro, our picaro, cannot even suppress his own roguish self, and before long he gets into huge difficulties.

The works tells the first person adventures of a picaro, a young street urchin, as he matures into adulthood.

Native American tricksters should not be confused with the European fictional picaro.

Stella Picaro realized she needed heart surgery and found she could also commit the perfect murder.

Jimmy Burns, fortyish and hardscrabble Southern, is the resident picaro.

Diego stood at the center of "El Yanqui," a picaro whose every thought and feeling became familiar to the reader.

At last he shows up in the person of Ned Conti, an antic wanderer and real-life picaro.

Steve and Blue are young women in search of adventure, not rogues as the Spanish word picaro would imply".

Un picaro aventurero.

Words & Music, Picaro Press, 2008.

The critic Frank Kermode hailed Passage as "the apotheosis of the picaro."

He was poisoned in the middle of performing a quadruple bypass operation on Stella Picaro, his 44-year-old ex-nurse.

Magnetic Field, Picaro Press, 2008.

The word picaro does not appear in Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the novella credited with founding the genre.

Reading Borges and Other Poems 2007, Picaro Press.

Pedro de Urdemalas (1615), a sensitive play about a picaro, who joins a group of Gypsies for love of a girl.

But only listen to this picaro, caballeros," he pronounced with affected scorn, and was answered by a chorus of derisive laughter.

Once a picaro, always a picaro.

A Lazarillo or picaro character is an alienated outsider, whose ability to expose and ridicule individuals compromised with society gives him a revolutionary stance.

In 2007 Picaro Press published Michael's chapbook of poetry entitled Poems from the 29th Floor.