Market, Audience, and the Fortunes and Adversities of Lazarillo de Tormes Castigado (1573)

This article traces the publication history of Lazarillo de Tormes castigado (1573). The picaresque narrative suffered textual "reform" at the hands of the Inquisition in the 1570s, was later associated by Madrid book editors with the Guzmán de Alfarache (1599), and was also appended to a popular conduct treatise, Galateo español (c. 1582), at the dawn of the seventeenth century. The analysis centers on the interconnected nature of market, audience, and literary production as it considers the various ways in which the Lazarillo was refashioned and recontextualized to fit its historical environments since its first appearance in 1554. A key aspect of the investigation seeks to understand the logic behind the repeated editorial pairing of the pícaro's expurgated narrative of self-representation and a treatise on self-fashioning like the Galateo español.