TY - JOUR TI - Le desengaño picaresque AU - Fajkis, Sonia TI - Le desengaño picaresque AB - This article explores the motif of desengaño – disillusion – in picaresque novel. Desengaño, usually associated with the works of Spanish poets of baroque period such as Quevedo, Gracian, appears to be one of the important stages in future picaro’s life. Based on works that codified the genre (anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes and Guzman de Alfarache by Mateo Aleman) and also on those that prolonged the tradition in Europe (Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe and Les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière by Madame de Villedieu) the article traces out the presence and peculiarity of this motif in picaresque novel. VL - Tom 9 (2009) IS - Tom 9, Numer 1 PY - 2009 SN - 1732-8705 C1 - 2084-3917 SP - 34 EP - 42 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/le-desengano-picaresque