Lazarillo De Tormes / the Grifter El Buscon : Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain

De Quevedo, Francisco; Anonymous; Frye, David (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1624663443 / ISBN 13: 9781624663444

Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lazarillo De Tormes / the Grifter El Buscon : Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1624663443
• ISBN 13: 9781624663444
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

"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 Buscón. 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 monuments of Golden Age Spanish literature." --Teofilo Ruiz, UCLA

About the Author

David Frye is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Michigan. His translations of José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi's The Mangy Parrot (2004) and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Abridged (2006) are published by Hackett Publishing Company.