ALL the WORKS of Miguel de CERVANTES in chronological order

The literary production of Cervantes was very coarse and extensive. This Spanish writer from Golden age he managed to establish himself as one of the essential authors in the history of universal literature due to the publication of Don Quijote of La Mancha. However, Cervantes wrote many other interesting and consecrated works that are worth knowing. In this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to travel back in time to discover works by Miguel de Cervantes in chronological orderIn this way, it will be easier for you to see how active he was in the field of letters and discover the most outstanding works of all his literary production. We started!

In the bibliography of Miguel de Cervantes we find about twenty titles that the author was published throughout his life. Although his name is known worldwide for the appearance of Don Quixote de la Mancha, the truth is that many other books came out of the pen of Cervantes that are worth knowing.

Here we leave you a list with all the works of Miguel de Cervantes in chronological order

that will help you better position the publication of his works and understand the great literary production that he produced. Here you have them:

1. La Numantia (1582)
2. The Algiers Deal (1582)
3. La Galatea (1585)
4. The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (First part edited in 1605, second part in 1615)
5. Exemplary Novels (1613)
6. Deceptive Marriage Novel
7. The little gypsy
8. The liberal lover
9. The English Spanish
10. Riconete and Cortadillo
11. Graduate Stained Glass
12. The force of the blood
13. The jealous Extremadura
14. The illustrious mop
15. The one with the Cipón and Berganza dogs
16. Novel of Mrs. Cornelia
17. Novel of the Two Maidens
18. Voyage of Parnassus (1614)
19. Eight comedies and eight new hors d'oeuvres, never performed (1615)
20. The works of Persiles and Sigismund, northern history (1617, posthumous work)

Next, in a PROFESSOR we are going to talk about some of the most outstanding and important works of Miguel de Cervantes in our literary history.

In any lesson that talks about the works of Miguel de Cervantes there is one that cannot be missed: Don Quijote of La Mancha. This is the author's most successful novel and, in addition, it is one of the essential ones, not only in Hispanic literature, but in universal literature. It is a coarse novel that is divide into two parts:

• The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)
• Second part of the ingenious knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (1615)

A very curious note is that this novel is the second most read book in the world, after the Bible. Therefore, we can already get an idea of ​​how important this publication is for the history of our culture. One of the keys to his great success is that Cervantes was inspired by chivalric novels, the genre par excellence of the moment, to demystify them and give it a burlesque and very funny touch.

Is about the first modern novel in history and, therefore, greatly influenced authors from all over Europe; it also consists of the first polyphonic novel. He contributed a new formula in literary expression, which is that of realism, but he does so with a parodic tone and with a constant mockery of the fantastic and legendary. Social criticism is very abundant throughout the text and the author investigates a lot in the psychology of his characters.

The inclusion of different voices in the novel, that is, the polyphonic novel allowed the author to offer different points of view on the same reality, a resource that allowed access to a reality that loses that sense of "real" to have a more subjective and personal. Cervantes creates different levels of interpretation because, for the author, the modern novel must be a genre in which everything can be mixed, in which nothing is renounced. And, following this premise, during the play we witness such disparate genres as comedy, prose, dialogue, philosophy, epic ...

We continue this tour through the most outstanding works of Miguel de Cervantes to speak, now, of La Galatea, another of the author's essential titles. As we have seen in the first section of this lesson, this work constitutes the third publication of the writer. It was in 1585 when the first part of La Galatea appeared since this work is a compilation of 6 books that were published.

It is believed that this work began to be written by Cervantes when he returned from Algiers, city in which he was imprisoned. The appearance of this novel was not very successful among the general public, however, today it is one of the works of Cervantes most studied in institutes and universities. This novel is framed within the pastoral novel genre that introduces us to characters who have conversations and debates around the subject of love.

But, in addition to these encounters, in La Galatea we also find different novels that are interspersed between the work and that are intertwined with the main plot. The characters that appear in these works are almost all shepherds but, deep down, the intention of Cervantes with the publication of this novel was to carry out a deep psychological study on the love.

In La Galatea we meet very interesting dialectical duels who debate about love and about psychology. For all these reasons, it is one of the essential works of the author that is worth reading in detail.

The Exemplary novelsThey are also another of the essential works of the author. The name of this title is in the plural because it includes different short novels that Cervantes wrote between 1590 and 1612; they were published in this compilation in 1613 thanks to the great reception that the appearance of the first part of Don Quixote had had.

This book collects 12 short novels that are inspired by italian model. The appellation of "exemplars" is given because Cervantes pursued a didactic and instructive objective with these texts, just as the Italian authors did. In fact, Cervantes in the prologue claimed that he was the first Spaniard to write Italian-style novels.

Experts often divide these Exemplary Novels into two types:

• Idealistic novelsThese are the ones that are most influenced by the Italian character. They tend to contain tangled plots, and actions and characters that are prototypes of society abound. "The liberal lover", "The English Spanish" or "The force of blood are some examples of these idealistic novels.
• Realistic novels: these novels are the ones that most faithfully represent realistic characters and settings. These works were written with a social critical intention and have characters that are more well-worked on a psychological level. "Rinconete y Cortadillo", "El colloquio de los perros" or "The illustrious mop" are just some of the titles that fall within this group.

And we finish this lesson on the most important works of Miguel de Cervantes to tell you about "The works of Persiles and Sigismunda", the last of the novels of Cervantes and that saw the light when the author had already passed away. It was in 1617 that this book was published in Madrid, which is part of the byzantine novel. For the author, this was his best work.

After the success of his previous works, the public was eagerly awaiting a new work by Cervantes and with the appearance of this work they were able to quench his thirst. Here we find the narration of different adventures starring a young couple in love. Periandro and Auristela are the two protagonists of this story, princes of Norway who end up arriving in Rome and converting to Christianity.

With this novel, Cervantes intended to make a parody of the new narrative genres that appeared during the Renaissance. He also pretended create in Spanish literature a type of Greek novel that was adapted to the Christian world.