by Francisco de Quevedo · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420634210
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«El Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Picaresque novel that follows the misadventures of Pablos, a young man of humble origins who tries to climb the social ladder through deceit and trickery. With a satirical and burlesque style, Quevedo portrays the corruption, hypocrisy, and miseries of seventeenth-century Spanish society, turning degradation into a grotesque spectacle full of black humour.
Edition by Pablo Jauralde Pou, included in the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection from Alianza Editorial. Originally published in 1626.
Recommended for readers interested in the classics of Spanish Golden Age literature and the picaresque novel.
Spanish Golden Age writer and poet, master of conceptismo, author of El Buscón and of an enormous body of poetry and satire.
