Reading Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler | Alexandria
Read Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler by Francisco de Quevedo. Flipping conventional morality upside down, these rogues expose how "honesty" often masks deeper deceptions - a lesson eerily relevant today. Their subversive humor reveals harsh truths: society's "respectable" facades frequently conceal darker realities than a thief's naked greed. By embracing their roguery, they achieve an authenticity that "virtuous" hypocrites never find.