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Buscon

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Bus´con
n.1.One who searches for ores; a prospector.


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Friedman ends his discussion of the picaresque with the Buscon in order to argue that "the ideological play of the early picaresque narratives and of Don Quijote is clearly present in the Buscon, where artistry and message systems function dialectically" (73).
One of the mothers is deceived by a buscon (finder) who works in child trafficking; the second is told that her daughter is a domestic slave.
When asked about what influenced her work, Castedo says that she grew up steeped in Spanish literature, from the classics El Lazarillo de Tormes, and El Buscon and Cervantes to the stylists of the Generation of '98.
 
 
 
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