Las ruinas del paraíso

This novel is unique in the time period. Written in Spanish, by a French author, and published in Paris, the title (Deceits of this World) relates to a well-established genre wherein literature and morality were intertwined. Loubayssin writes with irony and wit. It is delicately erotic, a feature that cannot be found in its Spanish counterparts, due to the repressive censorship in Spain at that time. - In Spanish.

«El lector ha cobrado un afecto extraordinario por este don Quijote, bueno, inteligente, simpático, honrado, pero a quien su chifladura ha convertido en un arcaísmo viviente, que sólo tiene validez ante lo imaginado o lo fingido y que se desmorona ante la realidad. El lector ya juzgará si hay en ello o no una ejemplaridad y una lección para los quiméricos y fantasiosos, es decir, para los quijotes» Martín de Riquer

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