The Final Swindle of Quevedo's Buscon

(An old paper from my Utah days, posted in hopes of rectifying the incorrigible moralistic reading of a novel that is obviously anything but.)
           Francisco de Quevedo’s famed 1626 picaresque novel El Buscon (The Swindler) famously ends with the line, I thought things would go better in the New World and another country. But they went worse, as they always will for anybody who thinks he only has to move his dwelling without changing hi...