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• s  involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction
  picaresque novels
  waifs of the picaresque tradition
  a picaresque hero

• Any picaresque epic seems longer than its running time, and this one eventually begins wandering, like Jim, in search of an elusive climax of reconciliation.
• A picaresque Everyman, he wanders the world searching for his soul, finally finds it; but most readers will be less interested in his quest than in his adventures by the way.
• Misha is trapped (for legal reasons) in his homeland, and his longing--plus vodka--powers this endlessly inventive, lugubriously funny post-Soviet picaresque.

News & Articles

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• MOVIE REVIEW: Kristen Wiig delivers another spaced-out star turn IN "Girl Most Likely"
  Kristen Wiig delivers another spaced-out star turn in "Girl Most Likely," a picaresque romance of self-discovery that delivers a near-constant flow of small delights until veering too far into screwball preposterousness.
  July 18, 2013 - The Oakland Press
• ‘Girl Most Likely’: Wiig delivers another spaced-out star turn
  Kristen Wiig delivers another spaced-out star turn in "Girl Most Likely," a picaresque romance of self-discovery that delivers a near-constant flow of small delights until veering too far into screwball preposterousness.
  July 18, 2013 - The Saratogian
• Chinese spectacle a new twist for Lincoln Center Festival
  Monkey: Journey to the West, now settling in for nearly a month of hyperphysical, family-friendly performances at Lincoln Center, may signify the arrival of something more momentous than the show's buoyant, picaresque journey suggests: Chinese ticket buyers in the United States.
  July 14, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Quotes

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• Colm Toibin in AFP
  The panel of judges, which included Irish novelist Colm Toibin, described Su's work as a "picaresque novel of immense charm".
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti in Independent
  It doesn't have a plot,says poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "It was a road novel - a picaresque, like Don Quixote."
• Dorothy Parker in Boston Globe (registration)
  Dorothy Parker called it "the picaresque novel to stop them all"; VS Naipaul observed that "on every page there is that immediacy that all good writing has."