Word: lazarillo
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...Lazarillo. It can hardly be called a novel: its title, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus for tunas y adversidades, is almost as long as the shortest of its seven short chapters. And nobody knows who wrote it: the author modestly preferred anonymity to martyrdom. Nevertheless, Lazarillo made a decisive impact on European life and letters. Published in 1554, it was greeted with a loud...
...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...
...Lazarillo (Marco Paoletti) begins life under a dark cloud: his impoverished mother sends him off with a blind beggar who promises to teach him the ways of the world. First lesson: the beggar tells Lazarillo to put his ear to a stone sculpture of a bull and listen: "You will hear a great noise inside it." When Lazarillo gullibly does as he is told, the beggar slams his soft young head against the hard stone. He knocks more sense into the boy than he intended to. At the first chance, Lazarillo slyly stands the old blind brute in front...
...people and gypsies. Its best songs are "Angels that Around Us Hover" "Of Fairy Wand I the Power," "Let Me Like a Soldier Fall," "There is a Flower that Bloometh," "I am the King of Spain," and "With Rapture Glowing" The cast is as follows: "Maritana," Miss Clara Lane; "Lazarillo," Miss Hattie Belle Ladd; "Charles II, King of Spain," Mr. J. K. Murray; "Don Jose de Santarem, his Minister," Mr. William Wolff; "Don Caesar de Bazan," Mr. Thomas H. Persse; "Marquis de Montefiori," Mr. Arthur Wooley; "Alcade," Mr. Richard Jones; "Captain of the Guards," Mr. John Read; "Marchioness de Montefiori...