Two Spanish Picaresque Novels: Lazarillo De Tormes / The Swindler by Anonymous, Francisco de Quevedo, Francisco de Quevedo, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza

Two Spanish Picaresque Novels: Lazarillo De Tormes / The Swindler

Anonymous, Francisco de Quevedo, Francisco de Quevedo, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza

224 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

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The social conditions of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries bred the picaresque novel, which replaces the romantic hero with a rascally figure living by his wits. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the first and best of these essays in real...

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