Candy | Literary Precedents
A major strand of the modern novel has been the picaresque tradition, which uses small, illicit characters as antiheroes or anti-heroine, conducting them through a rapid sequence of satiric misadventures. Such is the mythos in Petronius' Satyricon, in the anonymous Spanish Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), in Voltaire's Candide. Dickens's Mr. Pickwick belongs in this genre, and a number of important twentieth-century authors have experimented with it, notably Evelyn Waugh, Nathanael West, Saul Bellow, John Barth, and Gunter Grass. Moreover, by entitling their main character...
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