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...LIFE AND MISADVENTURES OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES???Mariano Tomas?Houghton Mifflin ($3). Few writers of anything except bad checks have spent more time in jail than Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the world-famed Don Quixote. According to Biographer Tomas, it was bad luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about...
...Cervantes Saavedra, soldier of fortune retired to devote himself to literature, who, weary of the frothy, extravagant romances that had so long been the vogue in Spain, set himself to mock his scribbling brothers with a tale more fantastic than any that had been written. A great satirist, Cervantes???a greater poet. He took for his hero a knight as mad as the northwind, put him through incredible paces, made him withal so real, so courageous, so pathetic, so magnificent that not for three centuries has one been found to rival...
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