Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso

Fernández de Avellaneda, Alonso 

the pseudonym of the author of a spurious sequel to M. de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Fernández de Avellaneda, whose identity remains unknown, wrote the sequel from a reactionary feudal and Catholic point of view. In the nature of a parody, it contains sharp attacks on Cervantes. Cervantes, in turn, included vicious attacks on Fernández de Avellaneda in his own second volume of Don Quixote.

REFERENCES

Derzhavin, K. N. Servantes. Moscow, 1958.
Gilman, S. Cervantes y Avellaneda: Estudio de una imitación. Mexico City, 1951.