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Works of Mark Twain: Introduction To 'The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Twain, Mark

Twain, Mark
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction To "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"

"Huck Finn" And The Picaresque:

The story of Huck Finn's adventurous journey down the Mississippi River
on a raft is really a series of short adventures. This is the kind of plot
that is known in literature as episodic. Each event is an episode, a
self-contained little story. Plots like this are characteristic of a certain
kind of novel, the picaresque novel. (This type of novel had its beginning in
Spain during the sixteenth century. Among the first of these novels is one
called Lazarillo de Tormes.) To ...

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