by Baltasar Gracián · Bookking Int. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441000544
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«El Criticón» is the philosophical novel by Baltasar Gracián, published by Bookking Int. in paperback (699 pages, in Spanish).
El Criticón is an extensive Baroque allegory combining narrative, moral doctrine, erudition and invention. Divided into three parts, each chapter admits a literal, philosophical and scholarly reading. Its characters act as archetypes in a world of appearance and dream rather than as psychological portraits.
The work consists of thirty-eight chapters. This edition, published in 1995, belongs to the Clásicos Españoles collection and measures 18 x 11 cm.
For readers of philosophy and classical Spanish literature, interested in the moral allegories of the Baroque.
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.
