Melan on 3/3/2008 at 07:06
Quote Posted by Nitocris
Semi-on-topic, I just found out about (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque) an obscure literary genre that made me think of Thief.
Excerpt from the link above;
"The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca", from "pícaro", for "rogue" or "rascal") is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and
depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society"
Sound familiar, anybody? :cheeky:
I have read some (and would definitely recommend Grimmelhausen's
Simplex Simplicissimus and
Courage), but they didn't really resemble Thief - the thing about picaresque heroes is that they are very much "unprofessonal", get into trouble for it and survive as much by luck as the ineptitude of their opponents. Unless we consider Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar tales picaresque (a bit of a stretch), I don't see the similarity.
weylfar on 25/7/2024 at 01:33
Very interesting thread. Have you come across some new books or not mentioned here which have Thief atmosphere?
downwinder on 2/8/2024 at 00:23
beware the books with kevel in the title
downwinder on 2/8/2024 at 17:56
nice one azaran :)
mxleader on 8/8/2024 at 20:00
It’s just 500 pages of “Is that you, Kevel?” over and over.
Incidentally I bought the first and second books of Lankhmar over a year ago and haven’t read them yet. Someone posted somewhere in these forums that the lost city was inspired from a chapter in one of the two books that I believe is titled the Lost City. That’s why I bought the pair. I’m probably hesitant to read them for the same reason I’m always hesitant to revisit the Lost City missions.
