2014 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Appearing for the first time in 1554, this short, mordantly satiric narrative of a small boys adventures established the literary genre of the picaresque novel and introduced the picaresque hero to world fiction. Lazarillos influence on subsequent picaresque works in Spain, France, England and elsewhere gives this slender Renaissance masterpiece a unique and key position in the history of the novel. This translation is by poet W.S. Merwin. A new introduction for this...