Jan 3, 2010

Ogre, Ogre | Literary Qualities

Like Huckleberry Finn (1884) or Don Quixote (1605-1615), Ogre, Ogre is a picaresque novel, although the fantasy in it may obscure the book's essential form. Such books usually give a cumulative picture of a culture, as the author builds his society or world from the details of episodes stitched together by a journey. While Mark Twain gives a picture of the antebellum South in Huckleberry Finn, Anthony creates a portrait of an imaginary Xanth in Ogre, Ogre. The development of the hero Huck in Huckleberry Finn or Smash and Tandy in Ogre,...