Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, best known as the author of Don Quixote (1605, with a second part in 1615), a work widely credited as foundational to the modern novel. Cervantes served as a soldier and was wounded at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then spent five years in captivity in Algiers after being captured by Barbary pirates, an ordeal that shaped episodes throughout his fiction. He wrote extensively beyond Don Quixote, including the pastoral romance La Galatea, the Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels), and the posthumously published romance Persiles y Sigismunda.
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The Novel, Genres Why this is disputed. Cervantes and Don Quixote (1605) are one of several candidates scholars have proposed for the "first novel," alongside Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, Petronius' Satyricon and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; see The First Novel Question.
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Romance, Genres Don Quixote parodies the conventions of chivalric romance rather than working within them.
Source The Norton Anthology of World Literature
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Satire, Genres Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Source The Norton Anthology of World Literature
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, nationality there.
- Also in Language Atlas: Spanish, original language there.
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1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.In Genre: The Picaresque Novel, s.v. Picaresque novelView the Source 2. Miguel de Cervantes (Wikipedia)
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1547-09-29
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1616-04-22
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( sur-VAN-teez, -tiz; Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes sa(.a)ˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed), 22 April 1616) was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
View the SourceThe Norton Anthology of World Literature
W. W. Norton & Company- In Genre: The Novel
- In Genre: Romance
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Princeton University PressIn Genre: Satire
Novel (Wikipedia)
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