The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha. Edited by Florencio Sevilla Arroyo and Antonio Rey Hazas.

Author: CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.
Place: Alcalá de Henares
Collection: Obra completa de Cervantes.
Publisher: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos.
Edition: Florencio Sevilla Arroyo and Antonio Rey Hazas
Year: 1993
ISBN: 8488333056
MODEL: 8488333056 Binding: Hardback with hardback cover with dust jacket
Pages: LXVII + 1080 pag.
Weight: 2 kg
Dimensions: 25 x 18 x 7cm

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 29 September 1547-Madrid, 22 April 1616) was a Spanish soldier, novelist, poet and playwright. He is considered the greatest figure of Spanish literature and is universally known for having written Don Quixote de la Mancha, which many critics have described as the first modern novel and one of the greatest works of world literature, as well as being the most edited and translated book in history, second only to the Bible. It has been nicknamed the “Prince of Wits”. Cervantes is highly original. Parodying a genre that was beginning to perish, such as that of the books of chivalry, he created another extremely lively genre, the polyphonic novel, in which worldviews and points of view are superimposed until they become confused in complexity with reality itself, even resorting to metafictional games. At the time, epic could also be written in prose, and with the precedent in the theatre of Lope de Vega’s lack of respect for classical models, it fell to him to forge the formula of realism in narrative as it had been foreshadowed in Spain by a whole literary tradition since the Cantar del Mío Cid, offering it to Europe, where Cervantes had more disciples than in Spain. The entire realist novel of the 19th century is marked by this magisterium. On the other hand, Cervantes’ other great masterpiece, the Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels), demonstrates the breadth of vision of his spirit and his discipleship. In this collection of novels, the author experiments with the Byzantine novel (La española inglesa), the detective or crime novel (La fuerza de la sangre, El celoso extremeño), the Lucianesque dialogue (El coloquio de los perros), the miscellany of sentences and donaires (El licenciado Vidriera), the picaresque novel (Rinconete y Cortadillo), the narrative based on anagnorisisis (La gitanilla), etc.