![]() ![]() “I have always read intensely and found solace in literature,” she says. Between December 1982 and July 1983, she was held hostage by a guerrilla group in Colombia. Garcés, who is professor of Hispanic studies at Cornell University, understands the trauma of captivity. 1581-1583) and his novel La Galatea (1585), to his posthumous book The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617), the story of this traumatic experience continuously speaks through his work.” “From the first works written after his liberation, such as the play Life in Algiers (c. “His five-year captivity in Algiers left an indelible impression on his fiction,” Cervantes scholar María Antonia Garcés tells BBC Culture. When he was freed – with a ransom raised by Trinitarian friars attached to the convent he was to be buried beneath – he had become the man who would write one of the greatest novels in history. ![]() There, he was kept as a slave for five years. ![]() In 1575, after fighting in military campaigns against the Turks in the Mediterranean, the Spaniard was captured by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers. ![]()
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