by Baltasar Gracián · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420608334
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El Discreto is a work by the Spanish writer Baltasar Gracián, published by Alianza Editorial in 1997. This pocket edition, with 369 pages, presents a reflection on the virtue of discretion as a symbol of education, nobility, and life experience. Gracián, a representative of Baroque conceptism, offers a guide for the man of the world, moving away from Renaissance optimism and adopting a perspective of disillusionment and caution.
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.
