by Francisco de Quevedo · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423920242
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«Historia de la vida del Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (189 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist, Pablos, is a young man of humble origins who tries to rise socially through wit, cunning, and deceit, serving various masters and enduring grotesque situations. Quevedo combines humor and criticism to satirize the hypocrisy and corruption of Spanish society in his time.
Edition from the Selecciones Austral collection, number 24, with a prologue by Domingo Ynduráin. The work was originally published in 1626.
Aimed at students and readers of classic Spanish literature interested in the Golden Age and the picaresque novel.
Spanish Golden Age writer and poet, master of conceptismo, author of El Buscón and of an enormous body of poetry and satire.
