by Pío Baroja · Salvat Editores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434576537
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«La busca» is the novel by Pío Baroja, published by Salvat Editores in 1978 in hardcover, with 188 pages in Spanish.
The novel follows Manuel Alcázar, a young man trying to get ahead in the slums of Madrid. Between misery and violence, his story serves Pío Baroja to portray social marginalization and the struggle for survival, with a realistic and critical look at Spanish society of the time.
First installment of the trilogy 'La lucha por la vida', completed by 'Mala hierba' and 'Aurora Roja'. The novel was originally published in 1904.
For readers of classic Spanish fiction and social realism; also used as school reading.
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.
