Cervantes. Un escritor en busca de la libertad

We all know the magic and the literary greatness of Don Quixote, but how was the life of its author? From the threshold of death, Cervantes himself tells us his passionate story in this book: the hardships of his childhood, the fight that forced him to leave Spain, his experience as a soldier, the wound he received in the battle of Lepanto, his painful captivity in Algiers, the trips he made through Andalusia and La Mancha collecting taxes, his time in the prisons of Castro del Río and Seville... Following his vital adventures, the author describes the greatness and misery of the Spain that he had to live, a very powerful country but obsessed with the cleanliness of the blood and plagued by needy and idle people with a desire to prosper. In his story he paints with masterful strokes the cities where he lived and, above all, that happy and bustling Seville that he admired so much. Through his words we will learn about the passion he felt for books and the theater, his growing disenchantment that ended up leading to a masterful irony, the bitterness caused by the appearance of the apocryphal Quixote de Avellaneda, but, above all, his inalienable longing for freedom. The historical rigor and the drama of great stories, in short, come together in this entertaining biography, which helps us to better understand the work of an essential writer. above all, his inalienable desire for freedom. The historical rigor and the drama of great stories, in short, come together in this entertaining biography, which helps us to better understand the work of an essential writer. above all, his inalienable desire for freedom. The historical rigor and the drama of great stories, in short, come together in this entertaining biography, which helps us to better understand the work of an essential writer.