Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscon) : Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1624663451
ISBN-13
9781624663451
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Imprint
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 5th, 2015
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
370 grams
Dimensions
14.80 x 22.30 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Ksh 7,400.00
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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' mordant El Buscon . Frye' translations are triumphant, capturing the cadence of popular early modern speech while remaining faithful to the original texts; his notes illumi
"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
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