picara

La obra nos ofrece entonces una vision del mundo al reves: un guru gigantesco que amenaza a un turista minusculo que trata sin exito de utilizar excusas picaras para irse sin pagar.

A l'opposee de celle des picaras du siecle anterieur, l'experience de Moll Flanders et de Marianne joint a son sens initiatique, pour chaque age, propre a ce bildungsroman d'une anti-heroine, les significations profondes, revelatrices pour la reflexion sur la condition de la femme.

(12) Conjuntamente, no hay que olvidar que las picaras poseen un arma de la que su correlato masculino carece: su encanto femenino, el anzuelo del sexo.

After an introduction and two long theoretical chapters, Ganser focuses on fictional narratives written by women authors that explore different forms of female mobility, which she analyses through three non-discrete, related and at times intersecting categories--questers, para-nomads and picaras. The strength of her work lies in her refusal to read these stories simply as emancipation narratives.

Yet, while the female figures are often overlooked by critics and repressed by the male protagonists, they assume a key part in the novels and their function takes on overt significance in those whose protagonists are picaras. Indeed, a major issue addressed by both the female and male picaresque is the representation of gender difference, since the genre, due both to the "homosocial economy" of its canonical male exemplars (Davis, "Breaking" 138) and to the numerous novels with female protagonists, illustrates the many theories that circulated regarding the behavior and treatment of women in the literary and moral discourses of the early modern period.