George Mills | Literary Precedents
George Mills represents Elkin's most ambitious adaptation of the picaresque tradition, which has its English origins in the eighteenth-century narratives of Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, In these novels, the organizing principle is the adventures of the central character, often a rascal or a social pariah. Elkin developed this method as early as his first novel Boswell: A Modern Comedy (1964), and his stock in trade has been the adventures, told in episodic manner, of a rogue-hero. In this book, we have three variations on the motif, with distinctive styles and motifs...
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