The Picaresque Novel: A Look at Lazarillo de Tormes
1 Why it is important to the emergence of the picaresque novel?
Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his fortunes and adversities. It is believed that there must have been an earlier edition in 1553, but has not retained any copies of this edition. / The book soon became popular and was reprinted many times. With its popularity spread beyond Spain, and was translated into French (1560), English (1576), the Dutchman (1579), German (1617), Italian (1622). This work marked the incio of a new literary genre, the picaresque novel, of great importance in Spanish literature of the Golden Age
* The picaresque novel is a literary genre of prose narrative autobiographical pseudo very distinctive character of Spanish literature, if it transcended European literature. Emerged in the transition between the Renaissance and Baroque during the so-called Spanish Golden Age.
2.Connect between picaresque novel and reality
There is some relationship between the character of the picaresque novel (the rogue)
And the fact that many of the situations experienced by the character are real. / Rogue comes from the word “mischief” that espavilado means to be to survive and not starve, either through stealing, cheating people … / That’s why we associate it with reality, because these situations are part of everyday life.
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How is (characteristics) that reflect the rogue Lazarillo and experience the rogue changes after all picaresque novels have several common points in both the characters like in structure./ The rogue is an antihero who embodies the dishonor and his life is completely opposite of the gentleman, and often practiced being a street urchin begging willing to do anything for money (stealing, cheating ..) and you want to move up a class, something that never get. / often go hungry and survives by his wits in a hostile and cruel world, always alone. Picaresque novels have some well defined structural features: they are always autobiographical services ordered by different masters, the rogue tells her passage from childhood to adulthood, and all of them there is a unique perspective on reality: the rogue.
The characteristics of this genre are:
1. The protagonist is a rogue of low social rank or estate and a descendant ofparents without honor or overtly marginalized or criminals. 2.
Structure of false autobiography.
The picaresque novel is narrated in first person as if the protagonist and antihero a repentant sinner was the author and narrate their own adventures with the intent to moralize, beginning with his genealogy, antagonistic to what is assumed is the offspring of a knight’s rogue appears in the novel from two perspectives: as author and as an actor and author is at this time facing his past and recounts an action whose outcome known in advance.
3. D ETERMINE:
while the rogue tries to improve social status fails always and will always be a rogue.So the structure of the picaresque novel is always open. Which narrates the adventures could continue indefinitely, because there is no possible development that would change history.
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Moralizing ideology and pessimistic
Each picaresque novel is narrated from a final disappointment, would be a great “example” of deviant behavior that systematically, it is punished. The picaresque is heavily influenced by sacred rhetoric of the time, based on many cases in the preaching of “examples”, which tells the wayward behavior of an individual who ultimately is punished or regrets. 5.
Satiric intent and itinerant structure
The company is criticized in all layers, through which the protagonist wanders into a structure in which roaming is updated each time a service representative elements of each. Thus the rogue privileged to attend as a spectator to the hypocrisy that represents each of their powerful owners, who criticizes disinherited from their status because they are an example of what should be.
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Realism naturalism even when describing some of the more unpleasant aspects of reality that was never presented as an idealized but as ridicule or disappointment.
4. What does the statement “the rogue is an antihero?
The sharp contrast with the social reality created in response antinovel ironic unheroic character starring anticaballeros who loved antidamas in countries such as Spain, showing the gross and sordid social reality of the impoverished gentry, the miserable outcasts and marginalized converts against knights and rich Indians who lived in another reality that was observed only above their necks pompous. ??