![]() ![]() ![]() In order to properly understand Lazarillo's place in literary history, especially its status in relation to the emergence of the modern novel, it is necessary to look at the editions that were actually published in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, despite their considerable shortcomings. Before 1908, when Lazarillo was published with its original ending for the first time in English, all previous extant editions had concluded with one of several continuations.1 The successful recovery of the original ending has obscured the fact that for over three hundred years, Anglophone editions were notably different from the original. This article explores the divergences between some of the most prominent theorizations of the picaresque and the English language editions of Lazarillo that were published between 1586 and the nineteenth century. THOUGH La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades (1554) has long been acknowledged the seminal text of the picaresque genre, a gap has opened between historical and theoretical accounts of its role in literary history. ![]()
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