Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, March 22nd, 2002
Diana de Armas Wilson. Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-19-816005-4.
During the first week of my course on Cervantes, I mention to students that had the author of Don Quixote been granted the employment he sought in the Indies in the 1590s, in all likelihood the class they are about to begin would not exist and the long text before them never would have been written. Cervantes' request was denied, however, and rather than becoming a wealthy indiano, he became instead the progenitor of the modern novel.
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