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Translation: Abdul Hadi Saadon The novel "Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his fortunes and misfortunes" by its unknown author, or what is briefly known as "Lazarillo," is the opening of contemporary European novels that began with the arts and sciences of what was called the Renaissance era, and it is from this beginning, not others, that other works followed, whether in Spanish or in other languages. This made it form a new narrative pattern that will undoubtedly create a unique and pioneering form in world prose literature, which is what we mean here: the realistic novel. The novel represents an accurate and penetrating summary of the pattern of the novel that has been called and still is called the picaresque novel or the picaresque story, and it is the core of the first step toward a realistic novel. This pattern depicts the life of vagrancy and roguery, following the life of the individual from childhood in many cases until a decisive point that concludes the series of adventures and episodes experienced by the hero with its joys and misfortunes, as is the case here with Lazarillo de Tormes.