Lazarillo de Tormes: A Norton Critical Edition

Lazarillo de Tormes: A Norton Critical Edition

<p><strong>Anonymously published in 1554, <em>Lazarillo de Tormes</em> remains a centerpiece of Renaissance literature and arguably the most popular example of the picaresque novel.</strong></p><p>This Norton Critical Edition is based on Ilan Stavans’ new translation, which accurately captures the verve of the original.</p><ul><li>The Norton Critical Edition also includes:<br /> An introduction and explanatory annotations by Ilan Stavans.</li><li>Contextual materials highlighting the novella’s strong anticlerical views and its affinities with <em>Don Quixote</em> in depictions of social hierarchy in Renaissance Spain, as well as excerpts from Juan de Luna’s <em>Lazarillo</em> sequel.</li><li>Eight critical studies, by David Gitlitz, Jane W. Albrecht, Louis C. Pérez, Edward H. Friedman, Howard Mancing, T. Anthony Perry, Gabriel H. Lovett, and E. Herman Hespelt.</li><li>A Selected Bibliography.</li></ul>