Lazarillo de Tormes

Anonymous · 1554 CE · Novel · Spanish · Renaissance

A boy from the outskirts of Salamanca is handed by his mother to a blind beggar, and passes from him to a miserly priest, a starving squire with nothing but his honor, a pardoner selling forged indulgences, and others. Each master teaches him a fresh hypocrisy and a fresh method of not going hungry. The picaresque starts here.

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• ↓ Simplicius Simplicissimus
  Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen · 1668 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Gil Blas
  Alain-René Lesage · 1715 CE · Novel — influenced by this

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