ABSTRACT

In the preceding chapters I have sought to analyze the ideas which Quevedo developed over the course of forty years within a body of literary work which, in terms of its themes, genres, traditions, and stylistic characteristics, was extremely diverse. Having dealt with his ideas in thematic groups, I now propose a unified vision of these same ideas, in summary of the personal expression of a most singular author, in terms of both the quality of his writing and the cultural and historical context in which he lived.