Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432069628
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«Lazarillo de Tormes» is the anonymous picaresque novel published by Planeta in paperback (119 pages, in Spanish).
Lázaro de Tormes, a poor boy, recounts in the first person his misfortunes in the service of several masters. Amid mockery and punishment, poverty tempers his character until it turns him into a cunning rogue. The tale, in the form of a letter, portrays sixteenth-century society with irony and is considered the beginning of the picaresque genre.
Edition with introduction and notes by Francisco Rico. The work was originally published in 1554 and its full title was «La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades».
Classic of Spanish literature, common reading in schools and recommended for those who want to discover the origin of the picaresque novel.
