El Buscon: Critical social metamorphosis of the 17TH century. By: Leonor Taiano Jose Sarzi Amade El Buscon is a study the feudal crisis and the rise of the mercantile society. This change is considered for the author of the work as a carnavalizacion of society which must obligatorily be represented in a satirical manner. Francisco de Quevedo was member of an aristocratic family that had stood since early times by the defense of the Christian identity of Spain. It is important to remember that throughout the middle ages and the modern age part existed in Spain the cristiano-espanol Association by which Jews and Muslims were considered foreign. The author of the Buscon form part of a social group that clings to the Spanish estates, i.e. that it considers that social condition is extremely related features granted by blood.
The segregationist mentality of Quevedo sees some facts that occur in the 17TH century with bad eyes. The approach of the Portuguese bourgeoisie of convert source to the Crown Spanish period of Felipe III and Felipe IV is considered for don Francisco as a serious risk to the estates structure that had been guaranteed by several years the privileged position of his family and himself. Other facts that concern to the author of the Buscon were the constant purchase of enforceable of nobility by some converts belonging to the bourgeoisie and the entrance to universities, clergy and orders of chivalry in people that they possessed the macula’s blood. In the Buscon we find a direct criticism of the intrusion of converts in the Affairs of the Crown, characters like the arbitrary, the fencing master, the soldier show that blood cleaning statutes have been ignored, allowing those who do not possess the blood requirements to pass to form part of orders that were previously assigned to the clean nobility enforceable counterfeiting is alluded to through the Coronel family, which directly recalls the Rabbi of Segovia Abraham Senior, friend of Elizabeth the A Catholic who asked it became to Catholicism after the Decree of expulsion of the Jews. .