The life of Guide of Tormes and of his fortunes and adversities (more known like Guide of Tormes) is an Spanish novel. It was written by an unknown author. It is written in first person and in style epistolar (like an single long letter). The first editions known are from date of 1554. The book is an autobiographical form of the life of a boy, Lázaro of Tormes, in the century XVI, from his birth and childhood problemsy until his wedding, already in the adulthood. It is considered precursor of the pictoresque novel by elements like the realism, the narration in first person, the itinerant structure, the service to several masters and the moralistic and pessimistic ideas