Lazarillo De Tormes: Summary And Analysis

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Lazarillo De Tormes, at the time, was something new that struck the attention of Spain as a whole and later worldwide. The novel starting a new genre in itself, "picaresque." The change of the typical manly knight storyline had been overused and this novel was exactly what everyone needed. The novel was so far ahead of its time that in 1559 a lot of the content that shed bad light on priesthood was cut, until the full version released in the 19th century.
The author was not clear for a long time, but evidence suggests that Mendoza was the original writer. The origin of the story is not clear and there are older pieces of work that have huge similarities with the story line. Some of the works that relate to the story are bible characters, folk

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