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The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes | Anonymous
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..."Lázaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take Lazarillo (little Lázaro) on as his apprentice. Lázaro develops his cunning while serving the blind beggar and several other masters.Besides its importance in the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, Lazarillo de Tormes is credited with founding a literary genre, the picaresque novel, from the Spanish word pícaro, meaning "rogue" or "rascal". In novels of this type, the adventures of the pícaro expose injustice while amusing the reader. This extensive genre includes Cervantes' Rinconete y Cortadillo and El coloquio de los perros, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Its influence extends to twentieth century novels, dramas and films featuring the "anti-hero"...
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Ididsoidid
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Pickpick

A classic Spanish novel written in the 16th century by an unknown author. Lazarillo recounts his resourcefulness in a struggle to escape poverty against the odds. Funny and sympathetic, Lazaro reveals the hypocrisy and vanity of those in positions of power at the time. 8/10

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Ladygodiva7
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Very good so far! #Reading1001 #1001Books

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AshleyHoss820
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Pickpick

Written in the 1500's, this book takes us through Lazaro's time with seven different master's. This is a fun, short novel which pokes a little fun at society and the church (heresy, in Spain, at that time!) He learns something during his time with each master...mostly how to survive. Also, dude...your wife might be doing the priest... 120/1,001 #1001Books

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BarbaraBB
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Panpan

One of the first picaresque novels. A poor Spanish boy works for various masters and becomes a bit wiser by all of them. It is a novella about honour and rather critical of the church, which is unheard of in 16th-century Spaink. To me the most special about the book is that it survived for all those centuries. #1001books