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- Lázaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take on Lazarillo (little Lázaro) as his apprentice. Lázaro develops his cunning while serving the blind beggar and several other masters, while also learning to take on his father's practice.
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Lázaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take on Lazarillo (little Lázaro) as his apprentice. Lázaro develops his cunning while serving the blind beggar and several other masters, while also learning to take on his father's practice. Table of contents:
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The dawn of Spain’s Golden Age
During the early sixteenth century, Spain embarked on a period of imperial expansion and cultural vitality that lasted about 150 years, into the late seventeenth century. Later known as the Golden Age of Spain, this remarkable era is generally reckoned to have begun in 1516 with the accession of King Charles I of Spain. Several fortunate circumstances combined to favor the Spanish at the outset of their Golden Age—although it should be stressed that the very concept of a Spanish identity had...
Moriscos and Conversos
Ferdinand and Isabella had further enhanced Spain’s solidarity and its self-image—among the Catholic majority, at any rate—by taking the offensive against the peninsula’s largest two non-Christian minorities, its Muslims and Jews. Since medieval times large numbers of Muslims and Jews had lived in Spain, making it the most culturally diverse of all European lands. Muslim Arabs and North Africans—called Moors—had conquered the peninsula in the eighth century, and Jews had settled there in thei...
Germanías and comuneros
Charles V had been raised in the Netherlands, arriving in Spain for the first time in 1517 to claim his inheritance as the king of Aragon and Castile. Spaniards at first perceived him as a foreigner, and many resented his ostentatious retinue of Netherlanders, who took the most desirable offices in Charles’s government. In the early years of his reign, Charles was forced to overcome two extensive rebellions, one in Aragon and the other in Castile. The Aragonese rebellion broke out in 1519, in...
Plot summary
Lazarillo de Tormes runs to just over 50 pages in the English translation featured here. In a brief prologue Láazro addresses the narrative to Vuestra Merced (translated as “Your Honour” or “Your Grace”), an unnamed noble who, it appears, has solicited information about Láazro for an unspecified reason: “Your Honour has written to me to ask me to tell him my story in some detail, so I think I’d better start at the beginning, not in the middle, so that you may know all about me” (Lazarillo de...
Priests And Anticlericalism
Though a devoutly Catholic people, by the sixteenth century a select group of Spaniards, like others throughout Europe at the time, had begun to resent what they perceived as the excesses of a corrupt and oppressive Catholic Church. Called anticlericalism, such resentment is reflected in the appearance of hypocritical priests in many of the folktales that influenced Lazarillo de Tormes. The anticlerical bent reflects a larger movement in Spain at the time, Erasmianism, named after the Dutch r...
Spoil over toil
“I came down to this city hoping to find a good position,” the proud hidalgo tells Lázaro (Lazarillo de Tormes, p. 62). Though claiming that it is simply “bad luck” that he can’t find a decent employer, he unwittingly reveals that employment itself, and not the particular behavior of any employer, inevitably entails intolerable blows to his pride: “I’m often asked to be the right-hand man of minor noblemen, but it’s very difficult working with them because you’re no longer a man, just a thing...
Chandler, Frank Wadleigh. Romances of Roguery. New York: Lenox Hill, 1974. Dominquez Ortiz, Antonio. The Golden Age of Spain 1516–1659. Trans. James Casey. New York: Basic Books, 1971. Dunn, Peter. Spanish Picaresque Fiction: A New Literary History. Ithaca: Cornell UniversityPress, 1993. Elliott, J. H. Spain and Its World 1500–1700. New Haven: Yale...
Dec 18, 2017 · Lazarillo de Tormes is the first of three works generally considered to be fundamental in the formation of the picaresque novel. The other two are Guzmán de Alfarache (Part I 1599, Part II 1604) by Mateo Alemán, and El Buscón (ca. 1604-08, published 1626) by Francisco de Quevedo.
Lazarillo de Tormes is an anonymous picaresque novel written at the beginning of the 16th century. It tells the story of a young boy of humble origin who works for different men in several social classes.
In the first chapter, the narrator presents himself as Lazaro de Tormes, a boy born in a poor family and forced to live without a father when his father was exiled for being caught stealing from the mill. His father then dies shortly after in a war started by the Church against a group of African Muslims called the Moors.
Lazarillo’s surname comes from the peculiar circumstance of his birth: His mother happened to stay the night at the mill where his father was employed, and Lazarillo was born on the mill...
