The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
$29.08
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2004
Summary
Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair and Huckleberry Finn.
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.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590171325 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1590171322 |
| Author: | W.S. Merwin, Juan Goytisolo |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2004 |
| Weight: | 179g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
| Series: | NYRB Classics |
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Critics Review
”‘Lazarillo’s success was immediate and its popularity enormous. As for its impact on the literary imagination, suffice to say that it was the cornerstone for the entire structure of the modern novel’ Francisco Ayala”
W.S. Merwin
Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931 and now lives in Marrakesh. He is the author of many novels, including Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, and The Garden of Secrets, as well as two volumes of autobiography.
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
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