Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagabundos y espejo de tacaños

Pablos, the son of a barber and a witch, rises and falls through school, university, the streets of Madrid and the underworld, always trying to pass for a gentleman. Quevedo's picaresque novel is a savage comic satire of vanity, hunger and social climbing. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.