by Francisco de Quevedo · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401418631
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«Vida del Buscón» is the picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Pablos, a humble young man who aspires to rise in class through deceit. Son of a thieving barber and a mother reputed to be a witch, he enters the service of a fellow student and lives with the starving licentiate Cabra; his adventures portray the hypocrisy and corruption of seventeenth-century Spain.
The full title of the novel is «Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagamundos y espejo de tacaños»; Quevedo drafted the first version around 1603 and the work was published in 1626.
For lovers of Golden Age classics, the picaresque novel and seventeenth-century social satire.
