by Francisco de Quevedo · Espasa-Calpe. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423973002
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«Historia de la vida del Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows don Pablos, a young man of humble origins who tries to climb the social ladder through deceit and cunning. Along the way, he encounters comic and grotesque episodes through which Quevedo paints a ferocious satire of seventeenth-century Spanish society, corrupt and decadent.
Volume 300 of the Austral Collection from Espasa-Calpe, edited by Ignacio Arellano, with bibliography.
Aimed at students of Spanish literature and readers of Golden Age classics.
Spanish Golden Age writer and poet, master of conceptismo, author of El Buscón and of an enormous body of poetry and satire.
