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989 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1604
GUZMÁN DE ALFARACHE
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Originally published: 1599
Author: Mateo Alemán
Genre: Picaresque Fiction
Translator: James Mabbe
Published in English: 1622
I'm so sad to see there's no papercopy of this book in English. I've found this, though, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/...
What's neat about that, it's that the translation into English by James Mabbe happened close in time to the publication of Guzmán de Alfarache, therefore the English is as old to our English, as the Spanish is to the Spanish of today.
I loved reading this great feat of literature. I'm sad also, since there's nobody I know of to discuss it with. Very few reviews, and some who couldn't finish the two volumes (who are three Books amounting to over a 1,000 pages.) There's something in long books that cannot happen in short books. I've read El Lazarillo de Tormes, and it's, for lack of a better example, a meager appetizer when compared to this banquet of a book that is Guzmán de Alfarache.