Picaresque novel: Its characteristics and manifestations in “Bare Bread” by Muhammad Shukri

Abstract

This study deals with  the definition of the picaresque novel  by excavating its linguistic and terminological  origins; it presents  its characteristics with particular attention to its connection  with the biographical  novel. The study  also reveals  the manifestations of this sub-genre in Moroccan novelist
Mohamed Choukri’s  novel, Bread Alone  (El khobz elhafi), taking as a starting point the novelist’s own declaration of belonging to thelong tradition of this novelistic form.