Lazarillo de Tormes

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Lazarillo de Tormes is a seminal anonymous Spanish novella that inaugurated the picaresque genre by depicting the misadventures of a low-born rogue navigating a corrupt society.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Spanish literary work
anonymous work
novella
picaresque novel
author anonymous
canonicalStatus part of the Western literary canon
censorshipAuthority Spanish Inquisition
censorshipStatus placed on the Index of Prohibited Books
countryOfOrigin Spain
educationalUse studied in Spanish literature courses
firstEditionPlace Alcalá de Henares
Burgos
Medina del Campo
genre picaresque
satire
social criticism
hasAdaptation film adaptations
television adaptations
theatrical adaptations
influenced Don Quixote
European picaresque tradition
Guzmán de Alfarache
language Spanish
literaryDevice irony
satire
literaryPeriod Spanish Golden Age
literarySignificance considered the first picaresque novel
mainCharacter Lázaro de Tormes
narrativeForm first-person narrative
narrativePerspective retrospective confession
narrator Lázaro de Tormes
originalTitle Lazarillo de Tormes self-linksurface differs
surface form: La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades
protagonistOccupation servant
town crier
protagonistSocialStatus low-born
publicationDate 1554
setting 16th-century Spain
Salamanca
Toledo
structure divided into tratados (chapters)
targetOfCriticism Catholic clergy
nobility
social hierarchy
theme corruption of clergy
honor and dishonor
hunger
poverty
social hypocrisy
survival

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Spanish Renaissance notableWork Lazarillo de Tormes
Lazarillo de Tormes originalTitle Lazarillo de Tormes self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades
Tormes River associatedWithWork Lazarillo de Tormes
Early Modern Spanish notableWorkIn Lazarillo de Tormes