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Russian picaresque novel
Machátová, Ludmila ; Honzík, Jiří (referee) ; Zadražil, Ladislav (advisor)
One of the types of the novel genre is a picaresque novel which became very fashionable in Europe at the end of the 16th century. This form originated in Spain from where it spread to other European countries. Due to different developement in Russian literature, novel and thus also the picaresque novel appeared later. However, some picaresque features can be found in the "stories from life" from the 17ili century. Novel, which started to be developed in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century and reached its peak already in the middle of this century, is influenced by the traditional Russian genres (stories from life, chozenija, hagiography), a branch of moral-picaresque literature and also by the novel Gil Blas written by the French novelist and playwright Alain-Rene Lesage. The most important work of 'Gil-Blas-like' type is the Russian Gil Blas written by Vasilij Trofimovich Narezny who was inspired by the French novel. Picaresque novel was also reflected in the work of Faddei Venediktovich Bulgarin whose scandalous novel Ivan Vyzighin started a heated debate about trash literature that was joined also by Pushkin. Picaresque features can be also found in Gogol' s texts (Dead Souls, The Government Inspector). However, it would be a mistake to interpret them only from this perspective. Even though...
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