by Luis Vélez de Guevara · ISBN 9788440204783
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«El diablo cojuelo»: picaresque novel by Luis Vélez de Guevara; Compañía Ibero-Americana de Publicaciones, 176 pages, in Spanish.
The student Cleofás frees a devil named Cojuelo, trapped in a bottle. In gratitude, the devil takes him over the rooftops of Madrid and shows him the city's secret life: deceit, vices, absurdities and double standards. The work is a scathing satire of seventeenth-century Spanish society, written with wit and irony.
1989 edition in the collection «Las cien mejores obras de la literatura española», volume IV. Includes introduction and bibliography.
For readers of literature and fiction, especially Spanish classics and satires of manners.
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.
