The Picaresque novel -- Sholom Aleichem -- Saul Bellow -- T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Miguel de Cervantes -- Daniel Defoe -- Denis Diderot -- Henry Fielding -- Nikolai Gogol -- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen -- Franz Kafka -- Alain-Rene Lesage -- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis -- Frederic Prokosch -- Salman Rushdie -- William Saroyan -- Tobias Smollett -- Jonathan Swift -- Voltaire -- John Wain.
Summary
The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Franz Kafka, Jonathan Swift, and Voltaire.