Gil Blas

American  

[zheel blah] / ʒil ˈblɑ /

noun

1. (Gil Blas de Santillane ) a picaresque novel (1715–35) by Le Sage.

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Example Sentences

Gil Blas, a Spaniard born without social standing, becomes caught up with grifters and is obliged to live by his wits.

From The Wall Street Journal

As Gil Blas learns the ways of the world, he tells all with refreshing candor, a trait he shared with the flesh-and-blood Benjamin Franklin, who referred to Lesage’s novel in a letter to his friend, the publisher William Strahan.

From The Wall Street Journal

The house next door to ours, once occupied by the writer Alain-René Lesage, who wrote Gil Blas, just sold for 40,000 euros.

From The Guardian

She was the first person to translate “Don Quixote” into Chinese, and she also translated another Spanish classic, “Gil Blas,” as well as other literary works.

From Washington Post

The resulting reader’s diary includes time with Gaston Leroux’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” the 18th-century French picaresque “Gil Blas” and Mikhail Lermontov’s “A Hero of Our Time.”

From New York Times