Key Points

• HIs Jesuit education influence his allegorical book on human life, El Criticón

• Baroque writer of didactic prose

• Very personal style, with short sentences of dense content

• Frequent use of aphorisms and laconic language

• Sanctioned and exiled for his writings

• Most representative writer of the literary style known as "conceptismo", along with Quevedo

Relevant Works

• El héroe (on Machiavelli)

• El político Don Fernando el Católico

• El discreto

• El Criticón

• Agudeza de arte de ingenio

• Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia