It is a "Bildungsroman" and a picaresque novel. Satire and irony are central to the picaresque novel. It is most famous as the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel. The expression "picaresque novel" was coined in 1810. Voltaire's French novel "Candide" (1759) contains elements of the picaresque. Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884) also has some elements of the picaresque novel. The film would have become dramatic, even melodramatic, instead of being picaresque. The classic Chinese novel "Journey to the West" is considered to have considerable picaresque elements. The guaracha is a genre of rapid tempo and comic or picaresque lyrics. Its parody and picaresque methods have become favourites of black humorists. Andrew Dickson of "The New Yorker" dubbed the play "wryly picaresque" in 2015. Set primarily in Spain, it tells a frame story containing gothic, picaresque and erotic elements. William Makepeace Thackeray is the master of the 19th Century English picaresque. Her debut work was the Victorian picaresque "Tipping the Velvet", published by Virago in 1998.