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Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s *Journey to the End of the Night* chronicles the experiences of Bardamu, a former soldier adrift in post-war Europe. The novel offers a bleak and unflinching portrayal of societal decay and individual despair following World War I. Its notable exploration of disillusionment...
Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón is Vicente Espinel's 1618 Spanish picaresque, later used by Lesage for Gil Blas.
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts is Joseph von Eichendorff's 1826 German novella, a Romantic tale of a fiddling miller's son wandering toward love.
Moon Palace is Paul Auster's 1989 picaresque novel about Marco Stanley Fogg, linking Manhattan, the U.S. Southwest, and a search for ancestry.
Fasana-e-Azad is Ratan Nath Sarshar's Urdu picaresque, serialized in Avadh Akhbar from 1878 to 1883 and considered an early Urdu novel.
The Wandering Jew is a medieval Christian legend about a man cursed to roam until the Second Coming, widely printed in Europe from 1602.
Der Simplicianische Welt-Kucker is Johann Beer's 1677-1679 German picaresque novel, a four-volume Baroque response to Grimmelshausen.
