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La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes

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Una de las grandes creaciones artísticas en el decurso de las letras españolas, tanto por su propia entidad como por su transcendencia.

Hardcover, Clásicos Universales, 96 pages

Published June 30th 2004 by Mestas Ediciones (first published 1554)

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Sep 12, 2011 David rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: pants-crapping-awesome, nyrb

Where reading is concerned, I'm more LOTI than LOL. That's right. I'm admittedly frugal with my outwardly expressed laughter—unlike the normative social behavior these days wherein giggling becomes a nervous tic to punctuate every banal and unfunny comment. Maybe we want life to be funny so we laugh at it whether it is or not. We inflict an impoverished semblance of humor upon the world. And if we don't happen to mirror the laughter of our neighbors when they read one of those dumb jokey chain e...more Where reading is concerned, I'm more LOTI than LOL. That's right. I'm admittedly frugal with my outwardly expressed laughter—unlike the normative social behavior these days wherein giggling becomes a nervous tic to punctuate every banal and unfunny comment. Maybe we want life to be funny so we laugh at it whether it is or not. We inflict an impoverished semblance of humor upon the world. And if we don't happen to mirror the laughter of our neighbors when they read one of those dumb jokey chain emails or recount a gag they found positively uproarious in Wild Hogs, then we're convicted of sourpussery rather than credited with possessing a refined or discriminating sense of humor. TomAYto, tomAHto, I guess. What I'm claiming, somewhat facetiously, is that mindless and incessant giggling is the preoccupation (most commonly) of morons and manchildren who devalue the currency of laughter with their spendthrift ways. When everything is funny, then nothing is. Or maybe more accurately, when everything is funny, you're probably a total nutjob and should be stashed away in a cozy booby hatch somewhere. But you know what? The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by the clever and mischievous Spanish author Anonymous is actually really funny! So sayeth I. Not funny in an unfunny Geico commercial, Modern Family, or Jimmy Fallon kind of way, but funny in an honest-to-goshness 'Oh, my fucking god, did I just chortle?' kind of way. I literally laughed aloud several times—not that I would ever use that pernicious LOL as a matter of course because of how every dingbat on the planet is LOLing at everything nowadays: cirrhosis of the liver (LOL!), thermonuclear war (lmao!!), talking baby videos (rotflmao!!!)... This slim book (only 118 pages in the NYRB edition) was written in 1553. Did you digest that? 1553! Before William Shakespeare was even born! Now that's fuckin' old school. It's the story of a put-upon boy, mothered by a whore, who is sent off into the world to find a master to work for and earn his keep from. The first master is an extremely mean-spirited blind man. But don't worry—Lazaro finds ways (equally cruel and ingenious) of getting back at the old bastard. (And since everyone around Goodreads knows that I apparently hate blind people's guts, this was a particularly amusing segment for me. At the end, we're not quite sure whether Lazaro's trickery might not have actually inflicted a mortal injury on the sighltess creep. In the modern era, Lazaro could just refrain from alt-tagging his pictures. I hear it really honks those blindies off.) Anyway, Lazaro goes through a series of different masters, almost all of them either cruel or stupid (or both). The funniest segment involves a miserly priest who only feeds Lazaro onions, keeping the bread and the good food locked away in chest (for himself). This portrait of religious hypocrisy will give you an idea why this novella had to be published by 'Anonymous.' (And by the way, in case you were wondering, LOTI is laughing on the inside.)(less)

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Apr 23, 2012 Mikki rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: lit-europe, novellas

In the prologue, the author makes mention of fortune and those that are born into it -- rightly stating that little credit is due since luck of the gene pool was partial to them from the start. But what of those Fortune was against?

"Who had nothing to thank but their own labor and skill at the oars for bringing them into a safe harbor?"

What about the Lazaros of life? Born in (yes, in) the Tormes River; son to a morally unrestrained mother and swindler for a father, poor Lazaro was furiously tre...more

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Nov 08, 2012 موريسكو باندوليرو rated it 4 of 5 stars

قبل أن أقرأ هذا الكتاب، قرأت رواية تاريخ حياة البوسكون للشاعر والروائي دي كيفيدو، التي أعجبني فيها الكم الهائل من السخرية والتهكم ... لكن لغتها القديمة الغير مفهومة تجبرك على الخروج من عمق القصة والرجوع إلى هوامش الصفحة لفهم بعض المعاني والمفردات الإسبانية القديمة.

لكن هذه الرواية، "حياة لاثاريو دي طورميس وحظوظه ومحنه"(لكاتب مجهول، يقال أنه أحد الرهبان، لكن أغلبية النقاد يجمعون على أنها رواية مجهولة) تختلف عن البسكون، فهي شيقة من بدايتها إلى نهايتها، ورغم أنها كتبت سبعون سنة قبل الرواية الأخرى، إ...more

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May 12, 2011 K.D. Oliveros rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to K.D. by: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006-2010)

Shelves: 1001-non-core, classics, picaresque

If Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto started the gothic genre, in 1554 Lazarillo de Tormes’ started the picaresque genre. This is the genre where the likes of Don Quixote by Cervantes, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain belong. Oh I have not read any of them yet (shame on me) but aha I have already read The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow!

In picaresque novels, there is a picaro or a rascal exposing the injustices in his society...more If Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto started the gothic genre, in 1554 Lazarillo de Tormes’ started the picaresque genre. This is the genre where the likes of Don Quixote by Cervantes, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain belong. Oh I have not read any of them yet (shame on me) but aha I have already read The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow!

In picaresque novels, there is a picaro or a rascal exposing the injustices in his society via the use of satire or humor. In this novel, Lazarillo (probably from biblical character Lazarus) is the picaro. At the age of 8, he was given away by his mother to a blind man (his first master) after his father died. Then this was followed by seven other masters: a priest, a squire, a friar, a pardoner, a chaplain, a bailiff and finally, an archbishop. Notice a good number of his masters were men of cloth and this was published at the time of Spanish inquisition (1480-1834), so, when this novel came out, the name of the author was withheld and was never released even up to now.

The setting of the novel was in the city of Salamanca, a beautiful city in Western Spain. It is now famous for its good schools attracting lots of local and foreign students. Lazarillo’s surname, i.e., De Tormes came from the river Tormes that runs the city. Even up to now, there is a statue of Lazarillo and the blind man next to the Roman Bridge of the city. Because of Lazarillo’s first adventure, the Spanish word lazarillo has taken the meaning of “guide” as to a blind person. (Source: Wiki).

I was surprised that it was an easy read. I thought that the novel that’s this old would be archaic and hard to understand. My Penguin Classic edition was reprinted in 1969. My favorite part is when Lazarillo runs scared back to the house of the poor squire with no food inside the house. He rushes back inside and closes the door. He says to the squire that a dead man will be brought to the house because the grieving widow has said that her dead spouse will be going to the place with no food and drinks. I loved this part and I could not stop myself laughing last night. But mostly, the poor boy Lazarillo goes hungry in his first 5 masters and experiences nothing but hardships until he becomes independent working as a town crier. (less)

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Jan 02, 2013 Eh?Eh! rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: goodreader-gave-to-me, lit-huh-rary, babble-added

The past few months have been craptastacular in the life department, a yo-yo of highs and lows that sort of swung out of control and clocked me in the head at concussive force. Duck? Too late. Then at the beginning of the holiday vacation week, I started to get sick and sicker. I watched Forrest Gump through sneezing and mucous and ended up bawling out even more mucous. I tried to watch the Matrix movies but those made me cry, too! Every scene where two people met eyes meaningfully would set me...more

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Jul 16, 2012 Nathaniel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: originally-in-spanish

I can't think of anything else written during the 1500's (or probably in any year up to this novella's publication and perhaps a century after) that rolls along in such a delightful, accessible, irreverent and hilarious way. It would be tempting to think that the book was written by a time traveler if it didn't display such an acute awareness of peon-level Europe in the grimy era of indulgences, squires, etc.

A few tastes of our hero's voice:

"Rather than throw the rope after the bucket, the poor...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Steve rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: novella

A lot of fun.

I picked this up because of its influence on Cervantes, which, I was pleased to find, is wonderfully obvious as you read it. This is the beginning of the picaresque tradition, one which continues down to our day, whose most famous latter day examplar is Bellow's Augie March.

As such, everything you need to know about the picaresque as a mode is in here. It is essentially a comedy in that its hero is a low-born orphan boy whose meaning in life is survival, which comes not from fortun...more A lot of fun.

I picked this up because of its influence on Cervantes, which, I was pleased to find, is wonderfully obvious as you read it. This is the beginning of the picaresque tradition, one which continues down to our day, whose most famous latter day examplar is Bellow's Augie March.

As such, everything you need to know about the picaresque as a mode is in here. It is essentially a comedy in that its hero is a low-born orphan boy whose meaning in life is survival, which comes not from fortune but from his own wits. Each of the seven chapters of the book details his time in service to a master, each of a different social class (his final mistress is a wife).

So we have a panoramic view of society, vicious cruelty and deception as comedy (such as leading a blind man into a wall or a priest beating the sleeping Lazarillo in the face), and otherwise an absurdist-comic aesthetic, with people saying and doing outrageous things in complete deadpan, such as the Squire leaving a huge fortune and estate in Catile because one of the nobles (superior to him) wouldn't tip his hat to him (something which should not reasonably be expected). The rich and poor alike find themselves mocked, the poor for their gullibility and the rich for their miserliness (hence the picaro's name: Lazarus).

The beauty of the picaresque (more properly one of the beauties) is this mix of hilarious comedy and mourning of man's inhumanity to man. As an aesthetic it achieves great humanity by inhumane means (just as Polti said immorality in literature produces better morality in its reader than morality in literature) — it forces us to sympathize with an outcast (and all of us are eventually outcasts at some point); to admit to ourselves how cruel we all are in our hearts. It brings us to pity, to empathy, which leads on to love.

The other beauty for a writer is that the picareque is almost endless — if you get a good rascal of a character, there's no limit to the amount of trouble you can get him into. It's a wonderfully liberating device.

Wonderful. Five stars.(less)

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Oct 10, 2012 jeremy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, translation

despite being nearly half a millennium old, the life of lazarillo de tormes: his fortunes and adversities remains eminently readable, charming, and more than a little funny. published anonymously in 1554 (the authorship debate rages ever on), the novella was banned and later censored as part of the spanish inquisition for its allegedly heretical content. the life of lazarillo de tormes, credited as being the first picaresque work of fiction, follows the (mis)fortunes of young lázaro, a poor span...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Paul rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved this book. Written in the 1550s in Spain before Don Quixote it is a classic picaresque novel and satire. It is anonymous and there is no doubt much scholarly debate about who wrote it.
It is about a boy, Lazaro who is abandoned and has to find work with a series of masters. He is abused and ill-treated and learns to adapt, beg and steal to survive. It is a very clever satire on those in authority, especially the church. The book reminded me of Erasmus and his attack on simony and indulge...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Juliana rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Si fuera una lectora del siglo 16 le daría cinco estrellas a este libro pero como no lo soy, le doy tres.

Para leer un libro como el Lazarillo (La Celestina, El Quijote, El cantar de Mio Cid entre otros) nos tenemos que olvidar de muchas cosas y pensar que somos los lectores de esos tiempos. Tiempos es los que la novela, tal como la conocemos hoy día, estaba dando sus primeros pasos.

Por ejemplo, a nosotros no nos está raro que el personaje principal sea el que hable en el prólogo, pero para la ge...more

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Oct 01, 2012 Roy Kenagy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

More fun than a barrel full of inquisitors. Muscular, irreverent tour of 16th Century Spain that skewers the church and aristocracy with deadpan irony. Merwin's translation is a straightforward delight, giving a wide-eyed, unvarnished taste of lower-class life. One of the first picaresque novels, and still one of the best.

From the publisher, New York Review Books [http://bitly.com/QkiZjn]:

"Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first...more

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Apr 02, 2011 Adam rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nyrb

Called the “first picaresque novel ever written,” this very short Spanish book from 1554 chronicles a peasant boy’s employment with various disreputable masters from whom he learns the arts of beggary and theft--"a calling which I’d sucked in with my mother’s milk.” And the book ends with him attempting to gain a government post because, he says, “I had noticed that nobody really thrives except those who have positions of that nature.” Hence, the natural destination of his career path: thief to...more

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Dec 28, 2012 Jorge Gómez rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: novela, xvi, español

Algo extraño me sucedió con este libro, tengo una copia de él en la casa, pero por pura obsesión y curiosidad decidi leer la copia en Castellano que entrega Goodreads. La verdad, el libro me tenia harto, no queria terminarlo, cada vez que tenia tiempo para retomar la lectura, lo evitaba (Me demore 9 días en leerlo, cuando no debiera tomar más que unas horas), pero ya lo he terminado, y me ha dejado con gusto a poco, tal vez, simplemente, no me inmiscuí en el libro desde el comienzo por eso solam...more

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Jul 11, 2012 Mike Puma rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nyrb, spanish-author, 2012

This one came recommended by Ol’ Soiled Slacks—a neighbor, of sorts, just a short drive from here, a pleasant afternoon’s…wait, no one voluntarily goes to Indiana, anywhere in Indiana. There are scads of Republicans there, fundamentalists aplenty, and a surprising number of nudist camps. The place is scary, and the contents of the water there is suspect at best. In any case.

So here I was, casually making my way through some pretty incredible Latin American authors, occasionally dipping into the

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So here I was, casually making my way through some pretty incredible Latin American authors, occasionally dipping into the waters of Spanish literature, meandering through Marías, applauding Alfau, laying in a variety of Vila-Matas. Doing my part. But, amazon started badgering me about this novel. OSS attested to its awesomeness. Even Harold Freakin’ Bloom included it in The Western Canon. The ever-conspiratorial Wikipedia implicated this one as foundational in the picaresque novel genre. Harmon & Holman’s A Handbook to Literature said: “It was not until the sixteenth century that this rogue literature [the picaresque novel] crystallized into a definite type. A novel called La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades, probably dating from 1554, was one of the most-read books of the century.” What? 1554? Who am I to argue with Bloom, Harmon & Holman, OSS, history? Okay, I bit. One used copy to go, please, and make it snappy!

Lazaro, the novel’s picaro, makes his way through childhood to adulthood serving one wretched master after another. He tells his story matter-of-factly, but with a sense of humor that neither detracts nor overwhelms. It’s The Painted Bird meets Will Rogers. What’s most remarkable about the novel is the contemporary feel given it, presumably, by W.S. Merwyn. Job well done. It reads like historical fiction rather than fiction with a history of almost 500 years. Given that, it’s down-right incredible. If Merwyn’s done a translation of Don Quixote, I want it and I want it NOW!

Four stars for the novel, a fifth for the translation. I’m not saying rush out and buy it. I will say, if you have a chance to get this one used, or from a library, especially in this translation, you could do much worse with your money and time.

Thanks for the recommendation to DK, OSS himself.

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Dec 22, 2011 Bill Kerwin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: proto-novels, picaresque

This first picaresque "novel"--more of a novella really--is an excellent introduction to the genre and a very good book on its own merits. It is very funny (I laughed out loud more than a few times, and I don't do that for anybody but Wodehouse). the atmosphere is realistic and gritty, filled with memorable character portraits (the down-at-heels gentleman who would rather starve than reveal his shameful poverty is a particularly notable--and characteristically Spanish--example), and the overall...more

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Francisco El Buscón is a unique picaresque novel and a verbal masterpiece, and thus a very difficult narrative to translate. A critic wrote that "it´s a terribl...more
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Bill Kerwin Thanks for the tip. Now I know not to expect "more of the same," but a very different experience--and narrative focus--from Quevedo.
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Apr 20, 2013 Zachary Hunsaker rated it 3 of 5 stars

Es una novela picaresca, así que es muy corto. Utiliza un lenguaje viejo pero es bastante facíl para el lector curioso. Hay que entender que muchas cosas importantes de la novela no se dicen. El aútor no los incluyó para que las avereguasemos. Lazarillo es una representación de una persona no creyente en una sociedad dominada por la religión. Por su maltrato de la iglesia y de otros seres humanos Lazaro se convierte en un ateo basicamente. No me gusto tanto este transfondo anti religioso, pero e...more

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Mar 18, 2013 Diana rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: classic, school, espaňol

Comentario – Lazarillo de Tormes – Tratado I

Localización

Vamos a interpretar el fragmento de la obra literaria llamada Lazarillo de Tormes. Es una novela picaresca que pertenece a renacimiento y su autor es anónimo.

El autor de esta obra es desconocido. Ya que sabemos que esta obra critica la sociedad mucho, es natural que autor no se firmó. Pudiera tener muchos problemas, porque Lazarillo presenta una imagen muy realista del renacimiento y no oculta la crueldad, el egoismo de las personas o la hi...more

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Jan 09, 2008 Ben rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-lit, nyrb-classics

A very good book, with plenty of insight and humor.

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Dec 16, 2012 Esperanza Writes Too rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: school-reading

I had to read this book for school, I just loved it. It tells us the story of Lázaro de Tormes, a boy that is sold to a blind-man and has to learn how to live with an unfair society.
What I really missed is that some stories are very short, so I couldn't enjoy them so much, like the one that's about a man that paints drums, just 5-6 lines. On the other hand, there are others that they seem they won't end ever, like the second one.
But if you haven't read it, I recommend you to do it, you won't r...more

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Dec 30, 2012 Guido rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Primo romanzo picaresco, divertente soprattutto perché irriverente. Il giovane e poverissimo Lazaro cerca di sopravvivere offrendo i suoi servizi ai padroni più diversi e rappresentativi di diversi ambiti sociali: un cieco, un prete, uno scudiero, un venditore di bolle papali e altri, che l'autore sfrutta per costruire un'ottima satira sulla società spagnola dell'epoca. Né Lazaro né i suoi padroni potrebbero mai essere citati come esempi di virtù; il protagonista, che racconta le sue avventure i...more

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Sep 26, 2012 Sunny in Wonderland rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: 1001 Book List

Shelves: 1305-read

Thank you, Project Gutenberg!

I have some very well-read GR friends, and yet, not one of them has read this short little book yet. To each of you I say "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?"

To describe this book as hysterical is understating it. Laugh out loud ridiculousness might be a little closer to accurate. Misfortune LOVES Lazarillo, from the moment his mother sells him to a blind man and he learns to beg, to his marriage to a less than faithful wife, to his becoming rich, then poor, then rich again...more

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Feb 02, 2012 Kathleen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, history, read-in-2012

Picaresque blah blah, classic literature yadda yadda, originator of a genre et cetera et cetera, none of that is why you should read this book. You should read this book because in all of its Spanish glory it brings me joy that Charles Dickens never could. This is the life and times of a servant down on his luck--begging, stealing, working for beggars, priests, squires, and any one else who will offer him employment--and it isn't half as boring as Oliver Twist. Of course, Lazaro is a little shit...more

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Dec 21, 2008 Derek Martin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An awesome book. This is a classic work with an unknown author from 16th century Spain. It tells the grungy story of Lazarillo, a boy so poor that his mom has to give him to a blind beggar to be his servant because she can't feed him herself. The blind in those days could count on a steady income from begging, if they moved from place to place. Lazaro helps lead the blind man along as they travel through Spain, being given in exchange a few crumbs to survive on, plenty of verbal abuse and as man...more

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Jul 01, 2012 Ana Mcdevitt rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ésta no es la edición que leí precisamente y todos sabemos que el autor era Anónimo, y con eso dicho, empiezo:
El Lazarillo de Tormes fue un libro que mi profesora de Lengua nos mandó comprar y leer. Esto fue a finales de los años 80. Y por aquel entonces, ni los estudios ni el libro éste me interesaban.
Recuerdo que al comprarlo en la papelería con mi madre, lo envolvieron en papel y pensé que era un libro diferente a los demás, la portada era fea, con mucho escrito por todos lados y tenía unos...more

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May 03, 2009 Inma rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, spanish

As "The poem of Mio Cid", another great book to learn about Spain and its people the language. This one is maybe 700 years old much easier to read than "Mio Cid", wonderful descriptions of the psychology of the time, the society of the moment and it's very interesting to see the people of the time and how little they have changed through the centuries. Not afraid of showing the darkest side of society and people, very realistic.

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May 15, 2013 Bokabud rated it 3 of 5 stars

¡Yiha! Un libro que tuviste que leer en el instituto porque sí. Un libro bastante entretenido que a pesar de no poder superar su primer capítulo (seamos realistas, el ciego es el mejor de los amos, y por mucho), consigue crear situaciones picarescas y entretenidas para el deleite de todos. Un final un tanto inesperado y desconcertante, pero para ser un libro que te obligan a leer, la verdad es que está bastante bien.

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May 01, 2013 Emjy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Un roman fondateur de la tradition "picaresque" et donc un vrai modèle du genre ! Le héros, un jeune garçon courageux mais un brin profiteur, mène une existence ballotée de maître en maître pour le plus grand plaisir du lecteur qui se réjouit autant de sa débrouillardise que de ses extravagantes mésaventures. Le récit est drôle malgré l'origine plus que misérable de Lazarillo (lequel est né littéralement dans un ruisseau !).

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Sep 19, 2012 Andrea rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Un reperto archeologico

Forse meriterebbe un voto più alto: è sempre un reperto archeologico che fissa il momento esatto della nascita di qualcosa.
Lazzarillo de Tormes è un romanzo picaresco, uno dei primi romanzi, scritto quasi 500 anni fa. È la storia di un disgraziato raccontata in prima persona, con uno stile scorrevole e diretto che mette insieme aulico e popolare e pesca nel sordido.
A tratti è divertente.

Quindi 3 stelle, ma stelle relative al gradimento personale che ho per i romanzi in pri...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Comelibros added it · review of another edition

Buen libro que comienza con la historia de su infancia hasta que su padre muere. Después la vida con su madre que trabajaba cocinando a estudiantes hasta que está se enamoro y perdió el marido. De aquí en adelante comienza la parte cómica de está historia. Lázaro se encuentra con unos cuantos jefes avaros llenos de picardía y engaño que no le dan de comer. Al final el tiene un final feliz.

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May 15, 2013 Nella Fantasia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Obra que leí con 14 años y que entonces odié, y que ahora algo más mayor me ha tocado un poco el corazón. A nuestros ojos puede parecer incluso graciosa, pero todas las penurias por las que pasa Lázaro a lo largo de su vida, compartidas con sus amos, son tremendas. Muy agridulce, es sencilla de leer y muy rápida. Una buena lectura para divertirte y a la vez reflexionar un poco :)

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“We ate like kings and drank like Germans.” — 2 people liked it

“He was astonished to see the scarecrow that walked in, and he laughed so hard his rear tether let loose, and—royal flush. Out of respect for him, I think we should pass over that in silence.” — 1 person liked it

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