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by Jean Canavaggio

Winner of the Prix Goncourt for biography in 1987.

A study of the life of Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. It traces his life as a soldier, as a tax collector, his time as a prisoner of war of the Turks, and finally the publication of Don Quixote in 1605.

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