La novela picaresca y pirandello

Abstract

The idea about picaresque novel got a place inside the most misty and wandering of the compared literature. with the purpose of expanding on that strict field, the concept has been redefine in a sense of «tradición picaresca», or even in terms used by Guillén or Blackburn, of a «mito picaresco». Then, in a dialectic way, and through the hermeutic circle, the genre is continuously enriched and modified with new novels. El difunto Matías Pascal, of Luigi Pirandello, shows iconic elements that refers to the original picaresque novel and satisfies the higher criteria of that enlarge critic category. The main character of the novel, from the poetic of the picaresque character and in a evolved key, after the romantic heroes interval mostly homogeneous, rediscover the opposite prototype of the 176h century critic novel, of origin and picaresque background.