One of my all-time favorite works of literature. I am such a fan of this Spanish novel that one of my email account names is "Lazarillo de Tormes." Considered the first picaresque novel and a classic of Golden Age Spanish literature. It is a very bawdy and satirical tale of a young boy named Lazaro or Lazarillo who is poor and is apprenticed to a cruel blind man by his family.
There are some decent English translations, but this is best read in the original. If you have to read a translation, I would go with W.S. Merwin's translation. I wrote a third of my undergrad thesis on Lazarillo.
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