31. First-time director Wally White tries to whip up a picaresque romp from his personal experiences. 32. Its lyrics incorporate collegiate grievances about unfaithful girlfriends and God's indifference along with picaresque fantasies. 33. The new book will be " looser and more picaresque than ` Snow, "' 34. They usually revolved around a picaresque central character who comes of age at a crucial historic moment. 35. The SF / F roleplaying game Shadowrun is based on picaresque player characters in a corrupt dystopia. 36. The result is a slimmed-down, artistically unified, more ironic, and darker picaresque . 37. "Lazarillo " introduced the picaresque device of delineating various professions and levels of society. 38. In 1811 Hogg wrote a picaresque novel, " Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff ". 39. Themes are usually tragic and somewhat picaresque , where one makes fun of one's tragedy. 40. Cervantes represents a break, and the picaresque comes, I think, from Spain to England.