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A major strand of the modern novel has been the picaresque tradition, which uses small, illicit characters as antiheroes or antiheroines, conducting them through a rapid sequence of satiric misadventures. Such is the mythos in Petronius' Satyricon, in the anonymous Spanish Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), in Voltaire's Candide. Dickens's Mr.
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