This book offers Cervantes’ life explained with a street-level knowledge, from the point of view of the writer's mind. This biography aims to strip Cervantes’ 400 years of history to approach his human and emotional dimension, his status as a strong man and an inexhaustible man of letters. He was the only writer to let us know how to understand existence as no one had understood before: from the modern crossroads of irony. A book destined to be the new reference biography of the most universal author.