by Luis Vélez de Guevara · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423991693
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«El diablo cojuelo» is the picaresque novel by Luis Vélez de Guevara, published by Espasa in paperback (120 pages, in Spanish).
The student don Cleofás frees the devil Cojuelo from the flask that imprisons him. In gratitude, the devil takes him to the highest tower in Madrid and shows him the secrets of the nocturnal city. Then they travel through Toledo, Sierra Morena and Córdoba, among picturesque types, until the devil saves him and returns to hell.
The work belongs to the Biblioteca Clásica de Espasa collection and falls within the picaresque narrative of the Golden Age.
Recommended for readers of classic Spanish literature, interested in the picaresque genre and the Golden Age period.
Luis Vélez de Guevara was a Spanish dramatist and novelist. He was born at Écija and was of Jewish converso descent. After graduating as a sizar at the University of Osuna in 1596, he joined the household of Rodrigo de Castro, Cardinal-Archbishop of Seville, and celebrated the marriage of Philip III in a poem signed Vélez de Santander, a name which he continued to use until some years later.
