by Francisco de Quevedo · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498150001
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«Historia de la vida del Buscón» is a picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Diario El País, S.A. in paperback (170 pages, in Spanish).
Pablos, son of a thieving barber and a woman reputed to be a witch, tries to rise socially through cunning and deceit. The novel follows his adventures: school, service to the young Diego, the house of the miserly licentiate Cabra, and constant mockery, in a satire of seventeenth-century Spain.
The first edition of the work was published in 1626 and this edition is part of the Clásicos Españoles collection.
For readers of picaresque narrative and Spanish 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.
