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A Novel by a Sage of A Coming of Age: Gil Blas (1715) by Alain Rene Le Sage.

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Gil Blas's celebrated picaresque novel, "a novel on the road," predates Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD by several centuries and is hardly an exercise in existential angst as is the famous American's work. Gil Blas concerns the hardships, misadventures, and final redemption of a young man who only wanted to strike out on his own for University. Le Sage's epic tale would give rise to that literary genre called the picaresque, from the spanish for "knave," "brigand," or "robber"/"highwayman."
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