As with the giant slides this celebrated trickster installed in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall nine years ago, his shows can be as much fairground as exhibition.
The satirical "Naneun Ggomsuda" (roughly, "I'm a sneaky trickster") reaches an audience of around 10m per episode, according to its founder, Kim Ou-joon (pictured above, second from the right).
The dirty trickster also had a foreign-policy brain.
Kim Ou-joon founded "Naneun Ggomsuda" (very roughly: "I'm a sneaky trickster") last April, with the express purpose of making fun of gakha ("His Highness"), the conservative president, Lee Myung-bak.
"I want you to understand why the telling is complicated", writes the narrator in the prologue, explaining that "time is a trickster", but the book's construction is well in control, and the flashes back and forward are not alienating.
Despite Mr de Bernières's gentle demeanour, the bookseller regards him as "scurrilous and irreverent" in his depiction of God as a "frivolous trickster".
He has always been a trickster, a shape-changer, courageously exploring the novel's form, and this new book is no exception.
In 1949 she was voted equal with Eleanor Roosevelt as "the most famous woman in the world".Ms Watts, who teaches history at California State University, takes the interesting view that as a "trickster" and "signifier", Mae West appropriated black survival characteristics and lived the life of a black woman passing for white.
Employing narrators who are professionally interested in other people's lives a debt collector, a police surveillance officer, a confidence trickster, the writer herself Ms Klüssendorf multiplies the perspectives and leaves us believing that all modern living is bizarre.
His glamorous assistant, played by Amy Adams, is an even better confidence trickster than he is: she slips into an aristocratic English persona, "Lady Edith", whenever clients are around.
Le Garçon et l'aveugle ("The Boy and the Blind Man"), a simple tale of trickster tricked, could have been played by a jongleur and his boy and ranks for some scholars as the first farce.
