Gil Blas
Americannoun
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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 ● Feb. 9, 2026
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 ● Oct. 23, 2019
He was as utterly picaresque as the work itself; he reincarnated the spirit of Gil Blas; indeed, a new quality crept into stage expression through this characterization.
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
He must have shut his eyes, like Gil Blas, for there was not a man in either army who could ever hit anything he aimed at.
From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
The tales have been called immoral, but Abu Zayd interests us as Gil Blas does.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
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