1. Lazarillo De Tormes English Online
2. Lazarillo De Tormes English Prologue
3. Lazarillo De Tormes Translation

El Lazarillo de Tormes is a 1959 Spanish-Italian film directed by César Fernández Ardavín. An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters.

Lazarillo de Tormes is considered one of the early examples of the genre known as picaresque novel. This is really a novella that often uses first person narrative focusing on. This is the first graphic novel adaptation of Lazarillo de Tormes, an anonymous sixteenth-century work that is credited with founding the literary genre of the picaresque novel. This genre includes not only works by Spanish authors like Miguel de Cervantes but also famous novels in English and American literature featuring the 'anti-hero.' This edition offers a new approach to old questions. Lazarillo de Tormes (also known as The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities) was published in three Spanish cities in 1554 and has been in publication ever since.It is a picaresque novel characterized mainly by its use of satire.A picaresque novel contains a first-person narrator who is a picaro, a young boy who might be considered a rogue or born of low class. Nov 10, 2016 Lazarillo de Tormes was first translated into English by David Rowlands of Anglesey. He called it The Pleasant History of Lazarillo de Tormes drawn out of Spanish. It was published by Abel Jeffes in the Fore Street without Grepell-gate near Groube Street at the sign of the Bell, and dedicated to Sir Thomas Gresham.

Cast[edit]

• Marco Paoletti - Lazarillo
• Juan José Menéndez - The Squire
• Carlos Casaravilla - Ciego (Blind Man)
• Memmo Carotenuto - Cómico (The Actor)
• Antonio Molino Rojo - Alguacil (Bailiff)
• Margarita Lozano - Antona
• Emilio Santiago - Sacristán de la Sagra
• Pilar Sanclemente - Ciega (Blind Girl)
• Mary Paz Pondal - Moza 1ª (Girl #1)
• Ana Rivero - Moza 2ª (Girl #2)
• Juana Cáceres - Mujer sacristán
• Luis Roses - Tejero
• Victoria Rambla - Viuda (Widow)
• Carmen Rodríguez - Hilandera vieja
• Ángeles Macua - Hilandera joven

Awards[edit]

Won

• Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear^[1]
• Premios CEC: Best Film and Best Director

See also[edit]

Lazarillo De Tormes English Online

• The Rogues (1987)

References[edit]

1. ^'Berlinale: Prize Winners'. berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-01-15.

External links[edit]

Lazarillo De Tormes English Prologue

• El Lazarillo de Tormes at IMDb

Lazarillo De Tormes Translation