La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

Synopsis of La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

«La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes» is the anonymous picaresque novel, published by Sopena Editorial in paperback (70 pages, in Spanish).

Lázaro, a poor boy, moves from one master to another and loses his innocence as he learns to cope in a hostile world. Considered a classic of the picaresque, the book portrays sixteenth-century Spanish society with a critical gaze sustained from the protagonist's experience.

Anonymous work originally published in 1554; this 1995 edition belongs to the Clásicos Sopena collection.

Common reading in schools and universities for studying Spanish literature, and for anyone wanting to learn about the origins of the picaresque novel.