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The Life Of Lazarillo De Tormes
[Paperback - 2004]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Action & Adventure
Additional Category: Literary Fiction - Humorous Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9781590171325 | Pages: 144
Shipping Weight: .159 | Dimensions: 5 x .3 x 8 inches

Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair and Huckleberry Finn. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it was widely copied. The book is a favorite to this day for its vigorous colloquial style and the earthy realism with which it exposes human hypocrisy.

The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters, each vividly sketched and together revealing the corrupt world of imperial Spain. Its miseries are made all the more apparent by the candor and surprising good cheer with which young Lazarillo recounts his ever more curious fate.

This version of Lazarillo, by the prizewinning poet and translator W.S. Merwin, brings out the wonderful vitality and humor of this universal masterwork.

The author of Lazarillo de Tormes is unknown.

Books can be attributed to "Anonymous" for several reasons:* They are officially published under that name* They are traditional stories not attributed to a specific author* They are religious texts not generally attributed to a specific authorBooks whose authorship is merely uncertain should be attributed toUnknown.See also:Anonymous

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