Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y Adversidades
By Anonymous
Cover: View of Seville, 18th century by Unknown Spanish artist · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Lázaro, a miller's son from the banks of the Tormes, tells his own life as a boy who serves one master after another, among them a cunning blind beggar, a miserly priest and a proud but starving squire, and learns to survive by his wits. This short anonymous book founded the picaresque novel.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.