by Francisco de Quevedo · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432085055
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«La vida del Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Planeta in hardback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Young Pablos, son of a poor and ill-regarded family, narrates his attempts to climb the social ladder. After studying with his friend Diego, he suffers the miseries of Licentiate Cabra's household. The novel is a scathing critique of the vices, hypocrisy, and inequalities of seventeenth-century Spain.
First version written around 1603 and originally published in 1626 in Zaragoza. Planeta edition in the Clásicos Universales collection.
For readers of Spanish literature classics and the picaresque genre.
Spanish Golden Age writer and poet, master of conceptismo, author of El Buscón and of an enormous body of poetry and satire.
