The Genesis of the Picaresque, Absolutism and Individual in the Lifes of Lázaro de Tormes and Guzmán de Alfarache

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Pierre DARNIS

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The context of bureaucratic growth explains part of the curriculum form of the first Lazarillo and Guzmán de Alfarache. But it was also and paradoxically the bureaucratic requirement of personal narrative which encouraged citizens of the Crown to distort the facts to fabricate a fictionalized life. The sneaky way of the stories of Lazarus and Guzmán could in fact reflect the tension in the Spaniards’ experience between pressure of true curriculum and biographical invention.

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DARNIS, P. “The Genesis of the Picaresque, Absolutism and Individual in the Lifes of Lázaro De Tormes and Guzmán De Alfarache”. Creneida. Journal of Hispanic Literatures, no. 2, Dec. 2014, pp. 316-48, doi:10.21071/calh.v0i2.3538.
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