Gain La Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Compiled By Unknown Shown As Softcover

remarkable that this work was first published in, Remarkable also that it became an immediate international success, What that should tell us is that human foibles have not changed since, well, we started recording human foibles,

A small boy, a prostitute's bastard son, makes the best of a brutal existence, mooring to one master after another, doing what it takes to survive.
He faces greed and naïveté, pretentiousness and selfloathing, cruelty, and always hunger, He learns well enough he will not starve, He the boy is not trying to be funny he just sees the hyprocrisy but the author is very funny indeed.
He's anonymous too, and for good reason, heresy being a serious offense and broadly and flexibly defined back

in the day.


It's funny now, because things haven't changed much at the core, Especially when Anonymous says this: How many there must be in the world who run away from others because they do not see themselves!

This is a very quick read, something you could polish off in a morning at work, if you would ever do such a thing.


The NYRB Classics are such a treasure trove, And, oh, if there are awards for translations, give them all to W, S. Merwin.
Essential reading One of mytop rated books ever! Read several times, and never got tired of doing it again!
Simply wonderful and funny!.
Pity we will never know who wrote it!
In the prologue, the author makes mention of fortune and those that are born into it rightly stating that little credit is due since luck of the gene pool was partial to them from the start.
But what of those Fortune was against

"Who had nothing to thank but their own labor and skill at the oars for bringing them into a safe harbor"

What about the Lazaros of life Born in yes, in the Tormes River son to a morally unrestrained mother and swindler for a father, poor Lazaro was furiously treading to keep his head above water from day one.
Sold at a young age to act as guide for a blind man, he soon finds himself in a situation much akin to Dicken's Oliver homeless, beaten, begging and scamming just for the sake of a little gruel.
We watch as he shuffles from one dishonest master to the next, relying only on his quick wits and trickery learned along the way in order to survive.
And that he does masterfully. Row Lazarillo Row!

Though it may not sound like it, The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes is far from a depressing book and is in fact, one of the most engaging, humorous novellas that I've ever come across.
Told through first person narrative, this little gem is smart, tightly written and bold in its blatant jabs at the hypocrisy of Spain's elite society and religious leaders.
It is no wonder why the author remained anonymous,

I have seen some English translations available online, but after skimming through a few, I assure you that the work is inadequate as compared to the W.
S. Merwin version. Stick with this translation and you will not be disappointedthere will be much giggling to yourself and possibly an impromptu reading aloud to whomever is passing.
They will thank you.




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Definitivamente esta historia no ha sido para mí, El lazarillo de Tormes, si bien no es una obra difícil de leer ni mucho menos extensa, debe ser una de esas lecturas que te tiene que atrapar, ya sea por su narrativa o por el contenido mismo si no funcionan para ti ninguno de estos dos elementos, sencillamente dudo mucho que se llegue a disfrutar.

En mi caso, tenía esta obra pendiente por años, literalmente, al tratarse del único libro que recuerdo me mandaron a leer durante la escuela en mi vida no sé si eso es bueno o malo, pero que por supuesto no leí.
Solo recuerdo haber leído unas cuantas partes del primer tratado en alguna de mis clases, y haberlo disfrutado por ese sentido del humor del que se caracteriza la historia, así como el hecho de que, a pesar de las desgracias por las que pasa nuestro protagonista, siempre se le veía un lado positivo a todo.


Ahora, habiendo leído los siete tratados, me di cuenta de dos cosas: la primera es que la historia se me hizo repetitiva, constantemente está hablando de lo mismo, una situación adversa o problemática con cada amo, pero cuando lo único que cambia es la función/labor de este, volviéndose aburrido y tedioso de leer.
No creo que esto sea algo negativo al final del día, pero yo no pude conectar con lo que se me estaba narrando.
Ahora, la segunda cosa es acerca de la narrativa misma sentí que los primeros dos tratados, incluso el tercero, estuvieron muy bien escritos, con esos toques de la novela picaresca que representa y Lazarillo siendo completamente Lazarillo, si esto hace sentido alguno.
En cambio, a partir del tratado cuarto todo se vuelve muy pobre en términos de la prosa, hasta pareciera que los hubiera escrito otra persona que pudo ser al tratarse de una obra anónima, y además todo pierde el encanto que caracterizaba a los primeros dos tratados.
Sin duda, me quedo con las vivencias compartidas con el ciego y con el clérigo, y por supuesto con los orígenes de Lázaro, historias que sin duda serán difíciles de olvidar.


En conclusión, si la novela picaresca es para ti, sin duda amarás esta historia, ya que es muy fiel a dicho género de lo contrario, mi recomendación es no ir con altas expectativas como me sucedió a mí y mejor esperar cualquier sorpresa mientras se lee.


Mas también quiero que sepa Vuestra Merced que, con todo lo que adquiría y tenía, jamás tan avariento ni mezquino hombre no vi tanto, que me mataba a mí de hambre, y así no me demediaba de lo necesario.
Digo verdad: si con mi sutileza y buenas mañas no me supiera remediar, muchas veces me finara de hambre mas, con todo su saber y aviso, le contaminaba de tal suerte que siempre, o las más veces, me cabía lo más y mejor.
Para esto le hacía burlas endiabladas, de las cuales contaré algunas, aunque no todas a mi salvo, Mas cuando la desdicha ha de venir, por demás es diligencia, YouTube kitap kanalımda bu kitabın da içinde bulunduğu kitaplık turu videomu izleyebilirsiniz: sitelink be/yfmelnY

, yy'a kadar yazılan ponçik ponçik, hayatın güzel olduğu şövalye romanlarının İspanya'daki açlık ve ekonomik krizi görmemelerinden ötürü yazılmış bir kitap olduğu için adı pikaresk roman olan Tormesli Lazarillo, Don Quijote gibi bir efso kitabın yazılmasına da esin kaynağı olduğu için benim açımdan yeri her zaman ayrı bir kitaptır.
Hem de sadecesayfadır, Daha ne olsundur I loved this book, Written in thes in Spain before Don Quixote it is a classic picaresque novel and satire, It is anonymous and there is no doubt much scholarly debate about who wrote it,
It is about a boy, Lazaro who is abandoned and has to find work with a series of masters, He is abused and illtreated and learns to adapt, beg and steal to survive, It is a very clever satire on those in authority, especially the church, The book reminded me of Erasmus and his attack on simony and indulgences in "Praise of Folly", Only it is a lot funnier, bawdy and much more entertaining,
Initially I felt the later part of the book was weaker, but on reflection I thin this is maybe meant to reflect Lazaro growing up and becoming what he satirised.
Having learnt to live by his wits, to steal and cheat when he has to and to trust no one, he decides his best career is in government.
As he says "nobody really thrives except those who have positions of that nature", He learns to be a rogue and so goes into his natural home, politics, No lessons to be learned there then!!!!
This is a classic and deserves to be better known than it is.
If Horace Walpolesnovel, The Castle of Otranto started the gothic genre, inLazarillo de Tormes started the picaresque genre.
This is the genre where the likes of Don Quixote by Cervantes, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain belong.
Oh I have not read any of them yet shame on me but aha I have already read The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow!

In picaresque novels, there is a picaro or a rascal exposing the injustices in his society via the use of satire or humor.
In this novel, Lazarillo probably from biblical character Lazarus is the picaro, At the age of, he was given away by his mother to a blind man his first master after his father died.
Then this was followed by seven other masters: a priest, a squire, a friar, a pardoner, a chaplain, a bailiff and finally, an archbishop.
Notice a good number of his masters were men of cloth and this was published at the time of Spanish inquisition, so, when this novel came out, the name of the author was withheld and was never released even up to now.


The setting of the novel was in the city of Salamanca, a beautiful city in Western Spain, It is now famous for its good schools attracting lots of local and foreign students, Lazarillos surname, i. e. , De Tormes came from the river Tormes that runs the city, Even up to now, there is a statue of Lazarillo and the blind man next to the Roman Bridge of the city.
Because of Lazarillos first adventure, the Spanish word lazarillo has taken the meaning of “guide” as to a blind person.
Source: Wiki.

I was surprised that it was an easy read, I thought that the novel thats this old would be archaic and hard to understand, My Penguin Classic edition was reprinted in, My favorite part is when Lazarillo runs scared back to the house of the poor squire with no food inside the house.
He rushes back inside and closes the door, He says to the squire that a dead man will be brought to the house because the grieving widow has said that her dead spouse will be going to the place with no food and drinks.
I loved this part and I could not stop myself laughing last night, But mostly, the poor boy Lazarillo goes hungry in his firstmasters and experiences nothing but hardships until he becomes independent working as a town crier.
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