These nine intelligent, well-argued essays on Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)—an anonymously written work generally acknowledged as the first picaresque narrative and posited by some scholars as the first modern novel—focus on subjects ranging from the internal structure of the text to its representation of the politics of social status to the implications of its early circulation....A welcome addition....Recommended.
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Scholars of Spanish literature offer new perspectives on the anonymous picaresque novel , first published in 1555 and considered one of the literary treasures of Spain's Golden Age. They discuss reframing studies; publicity and fictionality; the importance of post-publication history; the Spanish Inquisition and the battle for ; the alimentary code in the novel; the secret library of Barcarrota; the women; the odyssey of and the secular state of mind; and style, diction, and content. Quotations are in Spanish followed by English translation.
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I find Pereira’s elaborations refreshing as he brings to bear the distinctness of public, private, and particular and their respective roles in Spanish culture of the wider period.
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