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Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler
Two Spanish Picaresque Novels
Anonymous - Author
Michael Alpert - Translator
Michael Alpert - Introduction by
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 240 pages | ISBN 9780140449006 | 26 Aug 2003 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler

Two early examples of the picaresque novel

The two short novels in this volume follow the adventures of two unlikely heroes-delinquent pícaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters, and murderers. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), published anonymously, provided a literary model for Cervantes' Don Quixote and describes the ingenious ruses employed by a boy from Salamanca to outwit a succession of disreputable masters. Francisco de Quevedo's The Swindler (1626) is a comic yet brutal and sordid account of a servant who wants to become a gentleman but ends up a cardsharp and common criminal.
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