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Book SynopsisThe Lazarillo Phenomenon addresses a fundamental question in Hispanic Studies, why do we continue studying La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes? As a classic literary text, Lazarillo's destiny depends on the relations it establishes over time with individuals and institutions responsible for literary, commercial, and ideological matters. This book brings together nine literary scholars from different critical approaches who address this question and reconsider the state of Lazarillo studies. The Lazarillo Phenomenon directs the reader's attention away from traditional concerns and toward different areas such as the complexities surrounding the production, transmission, and reception of the novel across time, and the wide-ranging social, historical, political, literary, economic, and religious circumstances in which it was written, banned, censured, and finally re-circulated. Contributors include Reyes Coll-Tellechea, María V. Jordán Arroyo, Ismene Kansí, Sean McDaniel, Joseph V. Ricapito, Theresa Ann Sears, Benjamín Torrico, Anthony Zahareas, and Oscar Pereira Zazo.
Trade ReviewThese nine intelligent, well-argued essays on Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)—an anonymously written work generally acknowledged as the first picaresque narrative and posited by some scholars as the first modern novel—focus on subjects ranging from the internal structure of the text to its representation of the politics of social status to the implications of its early circulation....A welcome addition....Recommended. * CHOICE *
Scholars of Spanish literature offer new perspectives on the anonymous picaresque novel , first published in 1555 and considered one of the literary treasures of Spain's Golden Age. They discuss reframing studies; publicity and fictionality; the importance of post-publication history; the Spanish Inquisition and the battle for ; the alimentary code in the novel; the secret library of Barcarrota; the women; the odyssey of and the secular state of mind; and style, diction, and content. Quotations are in Spanish followed by English translation. * Book News, Inc. *
I find Pereira’s elaborations refreshing as he brings to bear the distinctness of public, private, and particular and their respective roles in Spanish culture of the wider period. * Project Muse *
