The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes - Softcover

R, Clements Markham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9391560601 ISBN 13: 9789391560607

Publisher: Sanage Publishing House LLP, 2021

Synopsis

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its anticlerical content. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it was widely copied. The book is a favorite to this day for its vigorous colloquial style and the earthy realism with which it exposes human hypocrisy. The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters, each vividly sketched and together revealing the corrupt world of imperial Spain. Its miseries are made all the more apparent by the candor and surprising good cheer with which young Lazarillo recounts his ever more curious fate.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sanage Publishing House LLP
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9391560601
• ISBN 13: 9789391560607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82