The Swindler And Lazarillo De Tormes
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Lazarillo de Tormes and the Swindler
Author | : Michael Alpert |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2003-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140449000 |
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The two short novels in this volume follow the adventures of two unlikely heroes-delinquent pĂcaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters, and murderers. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), published anonymously, provided a literary model for Cervantes' Don Quixote and describes the ingenious ruses employed by a boy from Salamanca to outwit a succession of disreputable masters. Francisco de Quevedo's The Swindler (1626) is a comic yet brutal and sordid account of a servant who wants to become a gentleman but ends up a cardsharp and common criminal.