by Baltasar Gracián · Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437613499
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«Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia» is Baltasar Gracián's book of aphorisms, published by Cátedra in the Letras Hispánicas collection in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together a set of brief maxims written in the seventeenth century that offer practical rules for conducting oneself prudently in everyday life and achieving moral triumph. Its aphoristic format, original for its time, invites readers to treat each saying as a lesson in wisdom applicable to a wide range of social and personal situations.
Edition by Emilio Blanco, number 395 in Cátedra's Letras Hispánicas collection. It is a work of seventeenth-century Spanish literature.
Recommended for readers interested in practical philosophy, classic Spanish literature, and books of aphorisms.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considered his greatest work.
