Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler

副标题: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels

ISBN: 9780140449006

出版社: Penguin Classics

出版年: 2003-8-26

页数: 240

定价: USD 15.00

装帧: Paperback

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The two short novels in this volume follow the adventures of two unlikely heroes-delinquent pícaros 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.