Is Mohamed Choukri’s For Bread Alone a Picaresque Narrative?

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: A: 16/20, Mohammed V University at Agdal (Faculty of Letters and Humanities), course: End-of-studies Project, language: English, abstract: This thesis sets out to examine Mohamed Choukri’s autobiographic narrative For Bread Alone with reference to the picaresque literary genre in an attempt to identify some of the common characteristics which might be held to relate this narrative to this general literary tradition. My purpose here, in other words, will be to show to what extent Choukri’s narrative can be related to the picaresque genre. This will be achieved notably through the endeavor of defining and identifying some of the ways that For Bread Alone manifests itself as a picaresque narrative.