Popular Culture
In Giannina Braschi's novel Yo-Yo Boing! contemporary Latin American poets have a heated, drunken debate about Francisco de Quevedo's profile in defining the Spanish Golden Age. Quevedo is a main character of Captain Alatriste's books written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. In the movie Alatriste, he was played by Juan Echanove. He is also a main character in the alternate history novel 1635: The Cannon Law by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis.
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