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The Life Of Lazarillo De Tormes (Paperback, Main)
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The Life Of Lazarillo De Tormes (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
You Save R82 (19%)
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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.
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