Lazarillo de Tormes
A poor boy serves a blind man, a priest, and a squire, and learns that to eat, you have to be smarter than the devil.
In sixteenth-century Spain, a poor boy named Lázaro has to make his own way in the world. He serves a very clever and very stingy blind man, a priest who nearly starves him to death, and a squire who has nothing to eat but refuses to lose his honor. Through hunger, beatings, and tricks, Lázaro learns to survive. It is the first picaresque novel, published in 1554 without its author's name.
In sixteenth-century Spain, a poor boy named Lázaro has to make his own way in the world. He serves a very clever and very stingy blind man, a priest who nearly starves him to death, and a squire who has nothing to eat but refuses to lose his honor. Through hunger, beatings, and tricks, Lázaro learns to survive. It is the first picaresque novel, published in 1554 without its author's name.
