Key Points

• Spanish novelist and writer of an excellent education

• Probably a descendent from Jews converted to Catholicism

• Stablished and consolidated the characteristics of the picaresque novel

• Uses didactic-moralizing digressions and ancient, modern, sacred and profane scholarly examples

• His novel Guzmán de Alfarache consolidated the formula for the picaresque novel in Spain and Europe

Relevant Works

• Guzmán de Alfarache

• Ortografía castellana