by Pío Baroja · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434580213
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«La busca» is the social novel by Pío Baroja, published by Salvat in 1982 in paperback (188 pages, in Spanish).
Manuel Alcázar is a young man who arrives in Madrid hoping to make his way; the novel shows him trapped in an environment of misery, crime and abuse. Baroja portrays the lives of the marginalized in the capital at the end of the 19th century and denounces the conditions suffered by the poorest. First part of the trilogy «La lucha por la vida».
This edition belongs to the Biblioteca Básica Salvat (no. 18) and includes a prologue by Julio Caro Baroja; the work was originally published in 1904.
Work of the Generation of '98; for readers of classic novels and social narrative, commonly present in school reading lists.
Pío Baroja y Nessi was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen who was a goldsmith, was a well-known anthropologist.
