Key Details:
Title: The Picaresque Saint: Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction
Author: R. W. B. Lewis
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London
Year of Publication: 1960
Edition: First UK Edition
Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket (original, unclipped)
Pages: 317
Language: English
Genre: Literary Criticism / Twentieth-Century Fiction / Modern Literature
Mini Story:
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The American Adam, this volume explores the evolving archetype of the "picaresque saint" in modern literature. Lewis draws on figures such as Camus, Moravia, Silone, Faulkner, and Graham Greene, weaving a thoughtful portrait of postwar fiction and its morally complex protagonists. A fascinating read for fans of literary theory, modernist narrative, and the philosophical novel.
Condition:
Condition: Fair to Good – see detailed notes below.
This is a vintage book with visible signs of use and age:
Original dust jacket is complete but shows some edgewear, rubbing, toning, and small closed tears; tape residue present to front and rear (see photos).
Blue boards beneath are firm and well-bound; minor rubbing to edges.
Ex libris plate to inside front board for George Richard Rich Nicholas; some water staining to endpapers.
Internally, the pages are complete and clean with only light age-related toning.
No writing, underlining, or library stamps throughout.
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