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Lazarillo. The hero is a 16th-century Huckleberry Finn who pits wits and wiles against a world of unscrupulous adults...
Lazarillo. Based on a 1554 Spanish novel, Lazarillo is a sort of 16th century Huckleberry Finn that details the misadventures of its young hero as he pits wits and wiles against a world of unscrupulous adults...
Lazarillo. Based on a 1554 Spanish novel, Lazarillo is a sort of 16th century Huckleberry Finn which details the misadventures of its young hero as he pits wits and wiles against a world of unscrupulous adults...
Spain and then rapidly reprinted all over the Continent. Readers rich and poor were troubled by the author's smiling horror of Renaissance society, but they were also tickled by the scarum scrapes and earthy humor of his hero, a perky little picaro (scalawag) who became the Huck Finn of his century. Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage, Defoe and Fielding were inspired to imitation, and today Lazarillo is acclaimed as the prototype of the picaresque novel, as a handsel of the arriving era of realism in European literature...
They are Paul M. Lehmann, of Adams House and Dublin, N.H., Arthur E. Wise, of Dudley House and Bringhton, Mass., George R. Finn, Jr., of Dunster House and Milton, Mass., Michael R. Deland, of Eliot House and Chestnut Hill, Mass., and Lewis W. Auerbach, of Kirkland House and Massapequa Park...