The Book of Lzaro de Tormes is a conditional name for a series of works united by a single hero, based on the book published anonymously in the middle of the 16th century. The story of the fate of the boy, who inevitably becomes the most perverse fool in the cruel struggle against poverty and hunger. The story was published in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition and was later banned by the Catholic Church. And it is not surprising, because this story refuted the generally accepted system of values of the era of Charles V: blind adherence to the “code of honor”, ostentatious heroism, hypocritical observance of religious rites. Subsequently, it gave rise to a colossal literary tradition and became the most important milestone in the history of world literature, one of the most striking works of Renaissance literature. It was this story that was destined to become a work with which both the Spanish Plutov novel began to exist, and - more broadly - the European novel of the New Time. The central character of the story a hooker and an “anti-hero” turned out to be such a significant symbol of the era that today neither the national literature of Spain nor the world literature as a whole is unthinkable without this text. Multidirectional and polyphonic, the Toledo city herald, affectionately nicknamed Lasarillo, is rightly recognized as a national archetype and took a place in the same row with the most prominent hero of Spanish literature, the cunning idol Don Quixote of Lamanche . The trilogy about the life and adventures of Lazaro is published in full in Russian for the first time: the first part - with restored bills, the second and third - in translations specially made for this edition. The book reproduces the classic illustrations of Maurice Leloir, as well as the rarest edition of the first Russian translation of Lasarillo (1775 .). ), although marked by some liberties, but filled with the richest and most delicious Russian language, and therefore is an independent value Recommended to a wide range of readers.