by Pío Baroja · Bibliotex, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303100
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«La busca» is the novel by Pío Baroja, published by Bibliotex, S.L. in hardback (191 pages, in Spanish).
Manuel Alcázar arrives in Madrid from the countryside and makes his way in a hostile city: he alternates precarious jobs, gets to know the poor neighbourhoods and brushes against the world of crime, among rogues and thugs. Popular Madrid, with its streets and miseries, becomes both setting and character in a story about the struggle to get ahead.
First instalment of the trilogy 'La lucha por la vida'; edition with a prologue by Ricardo Senabre. Work originally published in 1904.
For readers interested in Spanish social narrative of the early 20th century and in the work of Pío Baroja.
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.
