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"Suplico a Vuestra Merced reciba el pobre servicio de mano de quien lo hiciera más rico, si su poder y deseo se conformaran. Y pues Vuestra Merced escribe se le escriba y relate el caso muy por extenso, parescióme no tomalle por el medio, sino del principio, porque se tenga entera noticia de mi persona; y también porque consideren los que heredaron nobles estados cuán poco se les debe, pues Fortuna fue con ellos parcial, y cuánto más hicieron los que, siéndoles contraria, con fuerza y maña remando, salieron a buen puerto. Pues sepa Vuestra Merced, ante todas cosas, que a mi llaman Lázaro de Tormes..."

En los dos mil años de la literatura occidental no se había escrito otro libro como ese Lazarillo que al mediar el Quinientos llegaba a las manos de los españoles (y pronto de todos los europeos), porque posiblemente ninguno había tratado nunca antes a un personaje de la pobre categoría de Lázaro con una atención tan amplia y tan extremada, tan respetuosa con el punto de vista que un pregonero en sus condiciones podría haber tenido de sí mismo, y tan centrada en la materialidad y en las minucias cotidianas de la existencia.[...]

Nos consta que no se conocía ninguna otra narración en prosa con las singulares características, con el insólito y ambiguo modo de ser del Lazarillo de Tormes. Porque el tal libro ¿era historia o era ficción? [...] De ahí que al verdadero autor no se le pasara por la cabeza revelarnos su nombre, que sigue ocultándosenos, y es de temer que sin remedio. Porque, en rigor, el Lazarillo no es tanto un libro anónimo, de pluma ignorada, como más propiamente un libro apócrifo, atribuido a un falso autor, el propio protagonista, Lázaro de Tormes.
Francisco Rico

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An annonymous book originally called La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades, whose oldest known edition was published in 1554. It is set in the 16th century and tells the adventures of Lázaro de Tormes, from his birth until he gets married. It is an ironic and harsh portrait of society at the time. The text is written as a very long letter and the events are told in first person - it is the protagonist who is speaking. Because of its moralising and pessimistic tone, and because of the realistic elements, as well as the structure and first person narrative, Lazarillo de Tormes is unanimously considered to be the precursor of picaresque novel, a genre that was widely developed throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.

An important work of Spain's Golden Age of literature, "Lazarillo de Tormes" portrays the clever ploys of a young Salamancan boy determined to outsmart his long string of masters. This Spanish novella was first published, during the Spanish Inquisition, by an author who wished to remain anonymous due to the work's heretical content. Young Lazarillo is an improbable hero of his time, for he comes from a poor and multiracial family who desperately apprentice him to a blind beggar after committing a crime. Lazarillo soon proves himself to be resourceful and resistant to the corrupt clergymen he must serve. Banned for heresy due to its highly critical portrayal of both the aristocracy and Catholic Church of the 16th century, this work came to provide a model for Cervantes and many future authors, like Twain, who explored the picaresque genre. Though originally published at great risk to the author, "Lazarillo de Tormes" is today an entertaining story of a boy who ingenuously survives his own childhood and makes something of himself despite the corruption that he must continually overcome.
About the Author: Publicado de manera anónima, Lazarillo de Tormes apareció por primera vez enmedio del siglo XVI, durante la era de la Santa Inquisición. Dado que Lazarillo fue considerado un trabajo hereje por representar a clérigos y relgiosos como ávaros licensiosos, es probable que el autor quisiera evitar la persecución al permanecer anónimo. Después de más de 400 años, el misterio de la autoría del Lazarillo sigue sin respuesta, a pesar de que algunos atribuyen el trabajo a un fraile contrariado, Juan de Ortega.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780593081440
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Espanol
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 130 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0593081447
  • Publisher Date: 14 Apr 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 136 gr


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