This is the only reference to the popular novel Lazarillo de Tormes in the whole book, and it acts as an alterego for Don Quixote's will to be a literary hero in his own lifetime.
Its tales of drastic adventures were based on the model of Spanish rogue stories (such as Lazarillo de Tormes 1554), which were fashionable due to the contemporary publication of Scarron's Roman Comique (or Comical Romance, so the English title which established the genre), and savoury with the events Head could claim to have based on his personal experience.
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