Author: Francisco de Quevedo
- Fiction
- European Masterpieces
- ISBN: 9781589770430
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish
This brilliant and cynical novel, supposedly containing many autobiographical episodes, and set in a boarding house in Salamanca peopled by unsavory characters, is one of the wittiest books ever written in Spanish, so packed with conceits and double meanings that it is all but impossible to translate.