Play and games: recreative disorder and intellectual order -- Picaresque realism and magical realism -- Play in Lazarillo de Tormes -- Manual for Manuel: how to become a Pícaro -- Picaresque love games in Match ball -- Conclusion
Summary
Analyses three important Latin American novels in an attempt to redefine the nature of the picaresque, especially in regard to the roles of spontaneous play and carnivalesque laughter
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-148) and index
