The archetype of the appealing anti-hero is encapsulated in Gil Blas, the star of Alain-Ren Lesages 18th-century picaresque novel. Lesages work was influenced by the storyLazarillo de Tormes,a Spanish novella published anonymously in 1554. The cover of an
The archetype of the appealing anti-hero is encapsulated in Gil Blas, the star of Alain-Ren Lesages 18th-century picaresque novel. Lesages work was influenced by the storyLazarillo de Tormes,a Spanish novella published anonymously in 1554. The cover of an 1846 double publication of those works is reproduced here.
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