"Not every man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
"For me alone was Don Quixote born, and I for him. He knew how
to act, and I knew how to write "
Best known for his incredible novels Don Quixote and Don Quixote Part II. The very first novelist whose work was not correctly recognized (although it was very popular) since it did not fit the prescribed notions of what was serious literature,
De Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 1547- Madrid, 1616) dicen los que saben que no fue buen poeta. Desmiéntanlos sus sonetos humorísticos.
As noted he was the author of Don Quixote. Cervantes was born in Alcal de Henares, Spain.
His first major work was the Galatea, a pastoral romance (1585),
and he
wrote many plays, only two of which have survived. He became a tax collector
in Granada (1594), but was imprisoned for failing to make up the sum due
to the treasury. Tradition maintains that he wrote Don Quixote in prison
at Argamasilla in La Mancha. (Note, the musical Man of La Mancha is set within a
prison although in the play Cervantes is facing the Inquisition.) When the book came out (1605), it was hugely
popular. He wrote the second part in 1615, after several years of writing
plays and short novels. Wikipedia says this about him: "Cervantes is one
of the most important and celebrated figures in literature and the leading
figure associated with the cultural florescence of sixteenth century Spain (the Siglo de Oro). His picaresque novel,
Don Quixote, is considered a founding
classic of Western literature and regularly figures among the best novels ever
written; it has been translated into more than sixty languages, while editions
continue regularly to be printed, and critical discussion of the work has
unabatedly persisted since the 18th century."
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