Abstract
HE HISTORY of the European picaresque novel has not yet T been written. When it has, the complex interactions between Spanish literary models and seventeenth-century social realities in France, England, and Germany will perhaps finally receive the emphasis they deserve. There exist excellent studies of the Spanish picaresque tradition,1 but most attempts to discuss the picaresque as a genre of European fiction have failed to consider the actual historical process by which translations were gradually assimilated into alien contexts and associated with indigenous works which themselves contributed to the evolution of the novel much as the Spanish originals had done.2 In France,
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