Lazarillo de Tormes

by Robert L. Fiore

Book Overview

"The model of the picaresque novel, Lazarillo is a pseudo-autobiography. Lazaro, the 16c. town crier, relates, in epistolary form, a biased story of his youthful life, fortunes, and adversities. As the original picaro, Lazaro is a marginal figure, a delinquent who presents a partial and prejudiced version of the truth. As fiction, Lazarillo established the two-fold pattern of the inward journey-autobiography as apology and confession."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805765611
• ISBN13: 9780805765618
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 132 Pages