by Francisco de Quevedo · Espasa-Calpe. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423986934
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«Historia de la vida del Buscón» is the Golden Age picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, in paperback (148 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist, Pablos, son of a humble family, tries to get ahead in a society that Quevedo portrays with satire and black humour. Between school, the house of the miserly licentiate Cabra and the roads of Spain, the novel shows deceit, hunger and ambition, and mocks the hypocrisy of the 17th century.
1998 edition from the Espasa-Calpe Centenary Collection; the work was originally published in 1626.
For readers interested in the classics of Spanish literature and the Golden Age picaresque novel.
Spanish Golden Age writer and poet, master of conceptismo, author of El Buscón and of an enormous body of poetry and satire.
