by Francisco de Quevedo · Editorial Casals · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421820759
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«El Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Editorial Casals in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
El Buscón follows the life of Pablos, a young man of humble origins who tries to climb the social ladder by taking on various trades and resorting to deceit. Throughout his adventures, comic and grotesque situations unfold that Quevedo uses to satirize the hypocrisy, corruption, and pretenses of the society of his time.
Work originally published in 1626; this edition is part of the NyC-Biblioteca de Aula collection (no. 9), with introduction, notes, and didactic proposals by Elisa Ayuso.
School edition with didactic apparatus, suitable for readers aged 16 and up.
Spanish Golden Age writer and poet, master of conceptismo, author of El Buscón and of an enormous body of poetry and satire.
