Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro de Miguel de Cervantes

Who was Miguel de Cervantes really? A literary genius or an adventurer with more interests in commerce than in letters? Why was he a late writer? Was his goal to enter the court? A soldier in Lepanto, captive in Algiers, merchant and tax collector, Cervantes lived between adventures and constant reinventions, with a life marked by intrigue, doubts about his faith and relationships as mysterious as they were controversial. Was he really the author of Don Quixote, or did business and personal conflicts divert his attention? With lovers, unacknowledged children and rumors of a religious conversion, the figure of Cervantes appears interwoven with the ups and downs of an era full of rival geniuses: Lope de Vega, Mateo Aleman and other heavyweights of the Golden Age who challenged him, scorned him and pushed him to live on the margins of literary glory. These pages immerse us in the life of a man who lived and died in ambiguity, a character who reinvented himself in the shadows of a society that never fully recognized him.