Son of a thief and a witch, Pablos, the Buscon, entered the service of a rich young man living in Alcala in court and just traveling to America. The buscon is a picaresque novel to use. The sarcasm in the description of the characters and situations, as well as cruelty and black humor of his anecdotes, transgress the limits of its genre, a picaresque novel that gives a twist to the archetype.