the realm of picaresque reflection, of seeing through every established stance, yet without moral implication … to the society which to the picaresque person is always hostile … the picaresque mode is a psychopathic parody of the individuation epic – but then individuation might be a paranoid organization of the picaresque … social realism would turn into a political tract, as indeed anarchism and the picaresque thrive best in Spanish soil … in a variety of fictional genres … therapy may be most helpful when a person is able to place his life within this variety, like the polytheistic pantheon, without having to choose one against the others
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hero stays on top of any story Patricia Berry considers that narrative as such cannot help but reflect the ego’s concerns, because narrative is essentially the genre of the hero