by Pío Baroja · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420658810
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«La busca» is the novel by Pío Baroja that opens the trilogy «La lucha por la vida», published by Alianza in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
Manuel Alcázar arrives in Madrid from the rural countryside and is forced to make his way in the underworld: he goes through several precarious trades and brushes with crime, surrounded by rogues and scoundrels, while aspiring to a decent life. Baroja thus paints a portrait of the populous Madrid of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
First installment of the trilogy «La lucha por la vida», originally published in 1904. This Alianza edition is part of the Biblioteca Baroja and includes a prologue by Ricardo Senabre.
For readers of Spanish classics and for those who want to discover the social narrative of 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.
