by Francisco de Quevedo · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420634210
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«El Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Picaresque novel that follows the misadventures of Pablos, a young man of humble origins who tries to climb the social ladder through deceit and trickery. With a satirical and burlesque style, Quevedo portrays the corruption, hypocrisy, and miseries of seventeenth-century Spanish society, turning degradation into a grotesque spectacle full of black humor.
Edition by Pablo Jauralde Pou, included in the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection from Alianza Editorial. Originally published in 1626.
Recommended for readers interested in the classics of Spanish Golden Age literature and the picaresque novel.
Escritor y poeta español del Siglo de Oro, maestro del conceptismo, autor de El Buscón y de una vastísima obra poética y satírica.
