by Pío Baroja, Bastian Kupfer · tapa dura · ISBN 9788413629391
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«La busca» is Pío Baroja's novel in its edition illustrated by Bastian Kupfer, published by Alianza Editorial in hardcover (224 pages, in Spanish).
Manuel Alcázar, a young man who has arrived from the countryside, tries to make his way in the bustling Madrid of the turn of the century. Between precarious jobs, boarding houses and hard streets, he moves in an environment of rogues, crooks and outcasts that threatens to drag him down. His story portrays the struggle for life of the poorest and the decision to seek an honest destiny in the face of misery.
First installment of the trilogy «La lucha por la vida». Work originally published in 1904; this edition commemorates the 150th anniversary of Baroja's birth.
For those who enjoy the classics of Spanish literature and the social novel of the early 20th century.
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.
