Lazarillo de Tormes
Lazarillo de Tormes is an anonymous Spanish
novel, which narrates the adventures of a humble child who goes from master to
master to satisfy his famine; a very mischievous child considered an antihero.
His literary genre is
picaresque novel
It was written at the
time of the Renaissance
characters
Lázaro Gonzales:
Lázaro was born in the river Tormes Salamanca a humble, intelligent boy who was
orphaned by his father and was given to be a blind man's guide.
The blind man: he is
a ruthless, bad and ambitious man who constantly beat lazaro and did not feed
him.
Mom of Lazaro: she
is a humble lady who has two children and a widow twice; She sent Lazarus with
the blind man.
secondary characters
dad of lazaro: he is
a man accused of theft and promptly dead.
Lazarus stepfather:
is a black man who married Lazaro's mother and they also accused him of robbery
leaving them alone again.
Lazaro's brother: a
mulatto boy who stayed with his mother
short novel
This novel begins at the time of the
Renaissance written in Spain, with the story of Lazaro de Tormes, who at eight
years of age was orphaned as a father because he was accused of theft. His
mother married a black man and they had a mulatto son, just as his father was
also accused of robbery once again being left alone.
When she was a
teenager, they moved to Salamanca where a blind man suggested Lazaro's mother
to let him be his guide; After a few days the blind man and Lazarus moved.
The blind man was
very bad and intelligent, he never fed Lazarus and he had to fix them as he
could and tricked him into stealing food using various tricks. When the blind
man realized how hard he hit him. With the blind lazaro he learned to live with
lies and deceptions; finally Lazaro got tired and decided to take revenge on
him by making him hit a wall and abandoning him and as if nothing followed his
course
REFERENCIAS: LIBRO LAZARILLO DE TORMES
