The word ‘Picaresque’ has been derived from the Spanish word ‘picaro which means a “rogue” or “knave”. The picaresque novel is the tale of the adventures or misadventures of a picaro or rogue who wanders from one country, to another, from one setting to another, from the town to the country, from one inn to another, and in this way the novelist gets an opportunity of introducing a variety of characters and incidents, of painting society as a whole realistically The picture may be satiric but the aim of the novelist is to delight and entertain, and not to reform or improve.