Hackett Classics: Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscon) : Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain (Paperback)
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Hackett Classics: Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscon) : Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain (Paperback)
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from hemlokgang
The two novellas in this book are examples of the "picaresque" character which was first introduced in Spanish literature in the mid 1500s. The "picaro" is a character who survives by his wits, struggling to find each and every crust of bread, and swindling the people around him to survive. Both ...
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Doing the dirty, picaresque styleVulgar, exuberant, down right nasty, late-renaissance reactions to genteel chivalric tales, these two novels do the low life long before the romantics, the fin-de-siclists and the film noirists, in fact, 100s of years before those guys tried it.
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