VIDA DEL BUSCÓN: TEXTO FIJADO POR FERNANDO LAZARO CARRETER. PROLOGO Y NOTAS DE JUAN ALCINA FRANCH.
Barcelona: Editorial Juventud, 1980. Third edition. Paperback. 287p., wrps. Very Good. Item #191725
First published in 1626, but probably written in the author's youth, the Historia de la vida del Buscón, called Don Pablos, an example of wanderers and a mirror of tacaños falls within the genre of the bitter picaresque novel initiated by Lazarillo de Tormes... Conceived with comic intent, it aims to demonstrate the impossibility of social advancement... To do this, Quevedo exaggerates satire to the point of caricature and shows a grotesque and brutal reality, in which the situations and the characters are taken to the extreme... Demonstrating an unlimited mastery of language, the author builds a work that is as typically baroque and Spanish as it is imperishable and universal.
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