{"product_id":"2026200013628-secondhand-a-man-called-cervantes","title":"A Man Called Cervantes","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Edition Thus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Top edge discoloured from tanning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it take to create the greatest novel ever written? A Man Called Cervantes by Bruno Frank answers that question through a vivid, novelized biography of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra — soldier, slave, tax collector, and immortal author of Don Quixote. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of sixteenth-century Spain and the Mediterranean world, Frank chronicles the astonishing life of a man who suffered poverty, imprisonment, and profound obscurity, yet channeled every hardship into literary genius. From the thunderous naval battle of Lepanto to the dark dungeons of an Algerian captivity, the novel presents Cervantes not as a marble monument but as a flesh-and-blood adventurer whose struggles were as epic as those of his own knight-errant.\n\nTranslated into English by H. T. Lowe-Porter — the celebrated translator of Thomas Mann — Frank's prose carries a graceful, literary authority that bridges the biographical and the novelistic with effortless sophistication. The work argues that great art is born not from comfort but from catastrophe, and that Cervantes's genius was forged in the crucible of a life lived at the extremes of fortune. First published in Germany and brought to American readers by The Viking Press in 1935, A Man Called Cervantes illuminates the paradox of a man who gave the world its first modern novel while the world largely ignored him — a story that leaves the reader wondering whether genius is ever truly recognized in its own time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203392544987,"sku":"2026200013628-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/24f9c339-6999-451e-823e-6d2f13540781.png?v=1788148410","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013628-secondhand-a-man-called-cervantes","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}