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Lazarillo de Tormes and the Grifter (El Buscon): Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain - Frye, David (Translated by), and de Quevedo, Francisco, and Anonymous
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"An elegant, precise, and accessible modern-English rendering of the two best examples of the early modern picaresque genre: the paradigmatic Lazarillo de Tormes and Quevedo's mordant El Busc???n . Frye's translations are triumphant, capturing the cadence of popular early modern speech while remaining faithful to the original texts; his notes illuminate the diverse contexts in which the texts were written. Frye gives careful attention throughout to the historical background that propelled these two parallel but different ...

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Lazarillo de Tormes and the Grifter (El Buscon): Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain 2015, Hackett Publishing Company, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9781624663444

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Lazarillo de Tormes and the Grifter (El Buscon): Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain 2015, Hackett Publishing Company

ISBN-13: 9781624663451

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Hardcover