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This study takes a fresh look at the picaresque genre as seen in two important contemporary Latin American novels, Cort¯zar's Libro de Manuel and Sk¯rmeta's Match Ball, the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes. Gordana Yovanovich considers the genre in relation to the concept of play and shows how the traditional picaresque genre has been replaced by a distinctly modern version.

Play and the Picaresque contends that within Latin American culture humour and play serve as forms of empowerment and means of survival for those who are marginalized in society. Like the p¦caros of sixteenth-century Spanish novels, the proletarian characters in the Latin American fiction known as Magical Realism embody a playful and spontaneous approach to life and literature. The relationship of the magical to the real in Latin American fiction is, the book argues, comparable to the 'let's pretend' world and toys in play. The act of playing and living in these novels is a re-creative experience - a concept which has not been adequately explored in contemporary criticism. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 5208 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Projecting Lazaro's life story into Parisian slang *.(translation to French slang of Spanish novel La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes)(Ensayo crítico)
Author: Marc Charron
Publication: Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 21Issue: 2Page: 111(9)

Article Type: Ensayo crítico

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This book constitutes possibly the most comprehensive overviewof studies on Lazarillo, and includes an in-depth examination of theartistic structure, the meaning, the religous component, thevicissitudes of the work in the Court of Inquisition, the problem oftextual criticisms, and the literary language, etc.Moreover, itcontains an extensive analysis of the various ambiguous passages whichhad until nownot been adequately considered by the critics. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 705 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Life of lazarillo de Tormes (La vida de Larzrillo de Tormes y de Sus Fortunas y Adversidades).(Review)
Author: Alison Campbell
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 96Issue: 4Page: 1107(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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