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| Original Title: | La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades |
| ISBN: | 8489163413 (ISBN13: 9788489163416) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Setting: | Spain |
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Hardcover | Pages: 96 pages Rating: 3.52 | 17724 Users | 750 Reviews
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| Title | : | La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes |
| Author | : | Anonymous |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Clásicos Universales |
| Pages | : | Pages: 96 pages |
| Published | : | June 30th 2004 by Mestas Ediciones (first published 1554) |
| Categories | : | Classics. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Fiction. Academic. School |
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Lázaro es un muchacho desarrapado a quien la miseria obliga a emplearse como sirviente. Las inocentes y a veces justificadas burlas con las que Lázaro se defiende de sus amos son castigadas con una crueldad brutal.AsÃ, garrotazo a garrotazo, la simpleza y credulidad del Lázaro de las primeras páginas ceden paso a la sagacidad y a la astucia propias del más clásico y tÃpico de los pÃcaros.
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As I gather this is one of the first truly satirical novels in the history of fiction, about a poor peasant's quest to find a decent master. A series of vignettes poking fun at his social superiors and, in a deeper way, calling into question the morality of the entire system of Imperial Spain. Is it funny? Not really, most things aren't funny half a millennium after they've been written. More interesting as a historical curiosity than on its own merits (to most current readers, or so I suspect)This novella is supposedly the first picaresque: a boy works with master after master, enduring hardships under them, observing their corrupt behaviors, learning moral flexibility himself, and eventually settling down in dubious circumstances. It's a readable first-person narrative, sometimes leaving things unsaid in a reasonably sophisticated way, and its consistent focus on the scams and other kinds of roguishness the boy becomes involved in must have been pretty compelling at the time if it
Uhh... not what I expected. That this book was found in the Spanish Queen's bureau as well as in any peasants' dingy quarters means little. Perhaps I am angry that the Spanish was verrrry difficult to read? It was old school Spanish, & although I try to get back into the groove, it seemed archaic and mundane. I noticed a profusion of hunger & a constant mention of food. I felt the same way: hungry for more (at least something akin to the royal feast that is the Quixote).Hey, guess what.
This first picaresque "novel"--more of a novella really--is an excellent introduction to the genre and a good book on its own merits. It is also funny (I laughed out loud more than a few times, and I don't do that for anybody but Wodehouse), the atmosphere is realistic and gritty, filled with memorable character portraits (the down-at-heels gentleman who would rather starve than reveal his shameful poverty is a particularly notable--and characteristically Spanish--example), and the overall tone
If Horace Walpoles 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto started the gothic genre, in 1554 Lazarillo de Tormes started the picaresque genre. This is the genre where the likes of Don Quixote by Cervantes, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain belong. Oh I have not read any of them yet (shame on me) but aha I have already read The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow!In picaresque novels, there is a picaro or a rascal exposing the injustices in his society
One can imagine the anonymous author of Lazarillo de Tormes sitting down to write in a mood similar to that of Erasmus when he penned In Praise of Folly, or of Voltaire when he composed Candide: full of the wry amusement of one engaged in a learned, witty, and irreverent literary exercise. And yet this book, like those other two, quickly became something far more than an elegant diversion. For with Lazarillo the author spawned an entire literary genre, the picaresque, creating a character and a
In the prologue, the author makes mention of fortune and those that are born into it -- rightly stating that little credit is due since luck of the gene pool was partial to them from the start. But what of those Fortune was against? "Who had nothing to thank but their own labor and skill at the oars for bringing them into a safe harbor?"What about the Lazaros of life? Born in (yes, in) the Tormes River; son to a morally unrestrained mother and swindler for a father, poor Lazaro was furiously
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