His sloppy pouring of grain gets his father convicted of fraud and sent to do battle against the Moors, and his stepfather, the stable master for the Comendador de la Magdalena, is later tortured for stealing grain from the mill for which he is named.
In a sequel to this work, the title character changes into a tuna and joins submarine conspiracies before regaining human form. His sloppy pouring of grain gets his father convicted of fraud and sent to do battle against the Moors, and his stepfather, the stable master for the Comendador de la Magdalena, is later tortured for stealing grain from the mill for which he is named. One of his later companions, an unnamed hidalgo, starves himself rather than admit his poverty, leading this character to beg in the streets on his behalf. His own naïveté was cured by the lessons he learned from the Blind Beggar, his first master, who beats and starves him. Creating a new genre and placed on the Index of Banned Books, FTP, name this 16th-century tale of the adventures of the title Spanish character, the first picaresque novel.
In a sequel to this work, the title character changes into a tuna and joins submarine conspiracies before regaining human form.
The Life of {Lazarillo de Tormes} and of His Fortunes and Adversities