Francisco de Quevedo

El Buscon

Picaresque novel depicting the misadventures of a rogue rising in Spanish society

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Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco de Quevedo

Spanish Golden Age poet and satirist whose sonnets on love, death, and time are among the most powerful in Spanish. His Suenos (Dreams) are prose satires of rare wit.

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