Lazarus of the River Tormes (chinese Translation of World Literature Masterpieces Series)
About This Novel
The novel tells the story in the first person of Lazarus, a poor child who was born in the Tormes River. He left his mother at the age of 10 and made a living by working as a slave for one master after another. He suffered from the pain of the world at a young age. Lazarus led a blind man and worked as a slave for priests and squires. He suffered from hunger, cold, deception, and beatings, and had to endure painful and humiliating days in order to survive. Life gave Lazarus a lot of hardships, but it also taught him to deal with one master after another with tact. He took ruthless revenge on the old blind man who abused him, ate his master's bread, exposed his master's pretentiousness in a humorous and ridiculing tone, etc. These details in the novel made readers laugh. The language of the novel is humorous, interesting, vivid, concise and fluent, showing the style of various characters from all walks of life in Spanish society in the sixteenth century. As the pioneer work of European picaresque novels, it had a huge influence on the subsequent literature of various European countries. The genre of picaresque novels is also called by critics as "the most representative and popular among the people" in the history of Spanish literature.
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