La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
3,5/5 stars. Just read it for Literature class
Where reading is concerned, I'm more LOTI than LOL. That's right. I'm admittedly frugal with my outwardly expressed laughterunlike 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
This novella is supposedly the first picaresque: a boy works with master after master, enduring hardships under them, observing their corrupt behaviors, learning moral flexibility himself, and eventually settling down in dubious circumstances. It's a readable first-person narrative, sometimes leaving things unsaid in a reasonably sophisticated way, and its consistent focus on the scams and other kinds of roguishness the boy becomes involved in must have been pretty compelling at the time if it
A funny and relatively easy read amongst all the classics I've been reading, so it's fair to say I enjoyed Lazarillo for its playfulness with the character protagonist and its straightforward messages.
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
I enrolled in a Spanish literature class and this book was a must read for the course, and I really enjoyed the book.I must admit that it was hard reading the book because I thought about Lazarillo who was 8 years old and everything that he was suffering. Just the thought that so many kids in that time and some in our time suffer tremendously in the hands of people that should take care of them.Anyways, I enjoyed the book and I really do recommend it to anyone. The only thing is that I did read
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Original Title: | La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades |
ISBN: | 8489163413 (ISBN13: 9788489163416) |
Edition Language: | Spanish |
Setting: | Spain |
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Lázaro es un muchacho desarrapado a quien la miseria obliga a emplearse como sirviente. Las inocentes y a veces justificadas burlas con las que Lázaro se defiende de sus amos son castigadas con una crueldad brutal. Así, garrotazo a garrotazo, la simpleza y credulidad del Lázaro de las primeras páginas ceden paso a la sagacidad y a la astucia propias del más clásico y típico de los pícaros.Mention Appertaining To Books La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
Title | : | La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes |
Author | : | Anonymous |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Clásicos Universales |
Pages | : | Pages: 96 pages |
Published | : | June 30th 2004 by Mestas Ediciones (first published 1554) |
Categories | : | Classics. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Fiction. Academic. School |
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Ratings: 3.52 From 17724 Users | 750 ReviewsCriticize Appertaining To Books La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
One can imagine the anonymous author of Lazarillo de Tormes sitting down to write in a mood similar to that of Erasmus when he penned In Praise of Folly, or of Voltaire when he composed Candide: full of the wry amusement of one engaged in a learned, witty, and irreverent literary exercise. And yet this book, like those other two, quickly became something far more than an elegant diversion. For with Lazarillo the author spawned an entire literary genre, the picaresque, creating a character and a3,5/5 stars. Just read it for Literature class
Where reading is concerned, I'm more LOTI than LOL. That's right. I'm admittedly frugal with my outwardly expressed laughterunlike 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
This novella is supposedly the first picaresque: a boy works with master after master, enduring hardships under them, observing their corrupt behaviors, learning moral flexibility himself, and eventually settling down in dubious circumstances. It's a readable first-person narrative, sometimes leaving things unsaid in a reasonably sophisticated way, and its consistent focus on the scams and other kinds of roguishness the boy becomes involved in must have been pretty compelling at the time if it
A funny and relatively easy read amongst all the classics I've been reading, so it's fair to say I enjoyed Lazarillo for its playfulness with the character protagonist and its straightforward messages.
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
I enrolled in a Spanish literature class and this book was a must read for the course, and I really enjoyed the book.I must admit that it was hard reading the book because I thought about Lazarillo who was 8 years old and everything that he was suffering. Just the thought that so many kids in that time and some in our time suffer tremendously in the hands of people that should take care of them.Anyways, I enjoyed the book and I really do recommend it to anyone. The only thing is that I did read
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