Cervantes Street

12 hrs. 47 min.

Language Russian

Author Jaime Manrique

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

“Cervantes Street” is a fictional reconstruction of the life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, full of astonishing events; it tells the story of how the great novel about the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance was created, and it reveals the mystery of the appearance of a fake “Don Quixote”…

Young Miguel seriously wounds a rival during a card quarrel, flees from Madrid, and hides from the authorities, wandering with a traveling theatrical troupe. Later he goes to serve in the army and distinguishes himself in battle against the Turks at Lepanto, receiving a wound that forever deprives the movement of his left arm. The ship carrying him to Spain is captured by pirates, and Miguel is sold into slavery in Algiers. After five years of imprisonment, with several failed escape attempts, his family buys him out of captivity and he returns to his homeland. Cervantes moves from city to city and from country to country until he settles in a village in the province of La Mancha, where he finally finishes the novel that will be recognized as the best in all world literature—the “book of all times and peoples.”

Priests and pirates, ladies of high society and women of easy virtue, soldiers and poets, slaves and noblemen come alive in this vivid and convincing picture of Spain’s Golden Age.