Little Big Man | Literary Precedents
Little Big Man follows the tradition of the picaresque novel in obvious ways: The hero is a rogue who undergoes comic and antiheroic adventures, sees society from the lower levels, and, like more renowned tricksters, views society from the outside, or from the perspective of another society. Moreover, as in classic eighteenth-century picaresque novels, the trickster hero finally gains a measure of moral or spiritual enlightenment at the conclusion of his adventures. A more important precedent in American literature, however, is Huckleberry Finn, as some parallels already...
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