by Baltasar Gracián · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422679042
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El Criticón is a masterpiece by the Spanish writer Baltasar Gracián, first published in 1651. This edition, published by Círculo de Lectores in Barcelona in 2000, features a hardcover binding and has 953 pages. The edition is by Carlos Vaíllo, with a prologue by José Manuel Blecua, and is part of the Biblioteca Universal del Círculo de Lectores collection, Serie Clásicos Españoles.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considered his greatest work.
