Timeline
Lifetime:
1776 -
1827
Passed: ≈
197 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi Gutiérrez
Books by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi Gutiérrez
Periquillo Sarniento, tomos I y II
Satire
Fiction
Novel
19th century
Bildungsroman
Social criticism
Satire
Humor
Picaresque
Mexican Literature
Colonial Mexico
Considered the first Hispano-American novel, "Periquillo Sarniento" tells the picaresque tale of Pedro Sarmiento, a young man who grows up in a poor and dysfunctional family in colonial Mexico. Through a series of misadventures and encounters with va...