by Alain René Le Sage · Orbis · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476345054
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«Historia de Gil Blas de Santillana» is the picaresque novel by Alain René Le Sage, published by Orbis in 1986 in paperback and in Spanish.
Gil Blas, a young man born into poverty in Santillana del Mar and educated in Oviedo, sets out for Salamanca, but bandits force him to accompany them and he ends up in prison. Once free, he serves several masters and moves through different settings and social classes of Spain, portrayed with irony and social criticism.
1986 Orbis edition in three volumes, part of the Las Grandes Novelas de Aventuras collection. The first books were published in 1715, with continuations in 1724 and 1735.
Work of interest to readers of picaresque novels and classics of French literature.
Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735).
