by Pío Baroja · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420653303
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«La busca» is the realist novel by Pío Baroja, published by Alianza in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Manuel Alcázar leaves the countryside and arrives in Madrid, where necessity drives him through various trades and into contact with marginal characters. Between misery and the temptation of crime, the young man maintains the aspiration of building a dignified future in Madrid at the turn of the 20th century.
First installment of the trilogy «La lucha por la vida»; the novel was originally published in 1904 and this Alianza edition is from 2011.
For readers of Spanish literary classics and novels set in early 20th-century Madrid.
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.
