Approaches to Teaching Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Tradition

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In 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes, a slim, unassuming little volume, unsigned by the author, made its first published appearance in the bookstalls important mercantile centres in Spain and the Netherlands. Since then, as narratives of pícaros - and pícaras - continued to follow in the footsteps of Lázaro's fictional life, picaresque literature developed into a major genre in literary studies that remains popular to this day. Yet the genre's definition is anything but simple, as the diversity of this volume demonstrates.