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The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes - A Critical Edition Including the Original Spanish Text (Paperback)
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The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes - A Critical Edition Including the Original Spanish Text (Paperback)
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The beginning of the golden age of Spanish literature and the
particular socio-political circumstances of early sixteenth century
Spain made prime the opportunity for the emergence of the
picaresque novel, an early form of the first-person narrative novel
relating the adventures of a rogue or lowborn traveler (Spanish
picaro) as he drifts through the Spanish countryside from one
social milieu to another in an effort to survive. Influenced
largely by the medieval tradition of the fabliaux and by the early
Italian Renaissance, and structured upon a foundation of anecdotes,
proverbs, popular beliefs, and folk tales, the picaro's discourse
becomes a satirical survey of the hypocrisies and corruptions of
society. The picaresque novel is exemplified by the prototypical
and anonymously written Lazarillo de Tormes, published in 1554, in
which the poor boy Lazaro describes his services under seven
successive lay and clerical masters, each of whom hides a dubious
character beneath a mask of hypocrisy. The choice of characters and
the backdrop for Lazarillo de Tormes focuses the reader's gaze upon
the heart of Spain's national dilemma after the crucial
socio-political events of the 1520s. Because of the novel's
deliberate social criticisms, irreverent wit, anticlerical attitude
and string of mischievous misadventures, Lazarillo was both
included in the Index of Prohibited Books in 1559 and,
nevertheless, one of the most widely read books of its time. This
dual-language, annotated critical edition of Lazarillo de Tormes
presents the complete text of the first picaresque novel in both
English and Spanish. The translation attempts to capture in modern
English not only the meaning of the historical text, but also the
genuine qualities of its original style.
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