Synopsis
When it was first published, "Lazarillo" was not presented as a work of imagination, but as if it were the authentic story of a real Lázaro de Tormes (for this reason it could not bear any other signature than the name of the protagonist). With such mystification, he created a type of fiction hitherto unknown and constituted the absolute principle of the modern novel. In addition to studying this fundamental historical and literary aspect, Francisco Rico's "new edition" reexamines the great problems of "Lazarillo" in the light of new materials and research; offers the most faithful text to the will of the author; and, through an exhaustive annotation, places the novel in the context of the life and literature of the time, resolving one by one all the doubts that reading can raise.