The Licentiate Vidriera (Doctor Glass-Case) (Annotated)

Sinopsis del libro

In "The Licentiate Vidriera," one of Miguel de Cervantes's Exemplary Novels (1613), the learned Tomás Rodaja becomes convinced that his body is made of glass after an illness and thereafter speaks with startling freedom under the name Licentiate Vidriera. His delusion supplies the novella's governing metaphor: social…