The plot of the Buscón reflects that of Lazarillo de Tormes: Pablos, the protagonist, is born into a poor family but strives to ascend the social ladder by any means possible.
Exhibited here is Francisco de Quevedo’s best-known work, the picaresque novel, Historia de la vida del Buscon. The plot of the Buscón reflects that of Lazarillo de Tormes: Pablos, the protagonist, is born into a poor family but strives to ascend the social ladder by any means possible. However, unlike Lazarillo, Pablos falls lower and lower in the social order and, with his fortunes declining rapidly, the novel ends as he is about to depart for the New World.