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La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades, se p?blica por primera vez en 1554 cuando Espa?a era un imperio bajo la monarqu?a de Carlos V. El humorismo, la iron?a, el chiste, la burla y la parodia constituyen en su conjunto la clave de esta historia.Considerada... Read Full Overview

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Edici n de Florencio Sevilla Arroyo, catedr tico de Filolog a Espa ola en la Universidad Aut noma de Madrid

El Lazarillo de Tormes inaugur el g nero de la novela picaresca. Relata las desventuras que un joven de... Read Full Overview

An important work of Spain's Golden Age of literature as well as the first known picaresque novel, "Lazarillo de Tormes" portrays the clever ploys of a young Salamancan boy determined to outsmart his long string of masters. This Spanish novella was first published in 1554,... Read Full Overview

This Norton Critical Edition is based on Ilan Stavans' new translation, which accurately captures the verve of the original.

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its anticlerical content. L zaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take on Lazarillo (little L zaro)... Read Full Overview

Ticknor describes Lazarillo de Tormes as "a work of genius unlike anything that had preceded it. Its object is to give a pungent satire on all classes of society. It is written in a very bold, rich, and idiomatic Castilian style. Some of its sketches are among the most fresh... Read Full Overview

The beginning of the golden age of Spanish literature and the particular socio-political circumstances of early 16th century Spain made fertile ground for the emergence of the picaresque novel, an early form of the first-person narrative novel relating the adventures of a... Read Full Overview