by Luis Vélez de Guevara · ISBN 9788488869081
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«El diablo cojuelo» is the picaresque novel by Luis Vélez de Guevara, published in 1994 by Ediciones de la Torre (93 pages, in Spanish).
An escaped devil and a student embark on a satirical journey through seventeenth-century Spain. With humor and wit, the novel portrays the vices and virtues of a society observed from a critical perspective.
For readers interested in classic Spanish literature and in the social satire of the Golden Age.
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.
