Lazarillo de Tormes

Lazarillo de Tormes
ISBN-10
1800857721
ISBN-13
9781800857728
Series
Lazarillo de Tormes
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
177
Language
English
Published
2000-05-01
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Author
Keith Whitlock

Description

Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) is here offered facing the brilliant Tudor English translation of David Rowland of Anglesey (1586). Ostensibly a racy autobiography of a young rogue and his succession of masters, in reality it is a comical and caustic expose of sixteenth century Spanish society, and especially the Church. Rowland's translation exploited the propaganda potential of the text at a time when England and Spain drifted into open war. Lazarillo de Tormes is a key Renaissance humanist text and a formative influence upon European rogue literature and the evolution of realist prose fiction. Keith Whitlock has written a full introduction from a European perspective and provided a comprehensive annotation of the Tudor English. 176p

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