by Francisco de Quevedo · Espasa-Calpe. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423973002
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«Historia de la vida del Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows don Pablos, a young man of humble origins who tries to climb the social ladder through deceit and cunning. Along the way, he encounters comic and grotesque episodes through which Quevedo paints a ferocious satire of seventeenth-century Spanish society, corrupt and decadent.
Volume 300 of the Austral Collection from Espasa-Calpe, edited by Ignacio Arellano, with bibliography.
Aimed at students of Spanish literature and readers of Golden Age classics.
Escritor y poeta español del Siglo de Oro, maestro del conceptismo, autor de El Buscón y de una vastísima obra poética y satírica.
