by Francisco de Quevedo · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402074492
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«El Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Bruguera in paperback (195 pages, in Spanish).
Pablos, son of a thieving barber and a woman branded a witch, enters service as a servant to a young nobleman to escape his origins. Amid mockery, hunger and deceit, he travels through a miserable Spain where every attempt to rise clashes with reality. Quevedo turns Pablos's journey into a ferocious satire of seventeenth-century society.
This edition belongs to the Libro Clásico collection (no. 149), edited by Carlos Vaíllo with text established by F. Lázaro Carreter. The work was originally published in 1626.
For readers of Spanish classics and the Golden Age, especially those who appreciate Quevedo's black humour and social satire.
Spanish Golden Age writer and poet, master of conceptismo, author of El Buscón and of an enormous body of poetry and satire.
