by Fernando Arrabal · Espasa Calpe · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423922871
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«Un esclavo llamado Cervantes» is the biography of Miguel de Cervantes written by Fernando Arrabal and published by Espasa Calpe in hardback (275 pages).
Fernando Arrabal reconstructs the life of Miguel de Cervantes from an unconventional perspective, with humour, love, eroticism, anguish and panic, drawing on abundant documentation. It starts from the sentence to the amputation of the right hand and ten years of exile, and frames the narrative in sixteenth-century Spain and Europe.
The work belongs to the Espasa Biografías collection and was published in 1996. The edition includes chronological and genealogical appendices, as well as facsimile reproductions of documents, signatures and portraits.
For readers of historical biographies seeking a personal and documented approach to the figure of Cervantes.
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
