Los Sueños, Volume II by Francisco de Quevedo
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"Los Sueños, Volume II" by Francisco de Quevedo is a satirical work written between 1605 and 1621. This masterpiece of Spanish Baroque prose consists of five allegorical visions that expose the vices and corruption of every social class in Golden Age Spain. Through dreams of judgment, hell, and death, Quevedo unleashes biting criticism of doctors, nobles, and hypocrites alike. Blending philosophical reflection with dark humor, he employs rich conceptual wordplay and classical
sources to create a scathing moral commentary on human nature and Spanish society under the Habsburgs. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Cejador y Frauca, Julio, 1864-1927 |
| Title | Los Sueños, Volume II |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Sue%C3%B1os Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue%C3%B1os_y_discursos |
| Credits | Andrés V. Galia, Sanly Bowitts and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 59.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | Spanish |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 |
| Subject | Satire, Spanish |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 66262 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-66262-6 |
| Release Date | Sep 10, 2021 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 561 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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