Snippets from Spain

Chasing Illusion in Cervantes’ Home Town

Earlier this week, I rode a bus for forty-five minutes from Madrid to the town of Alcalá de Henares. I got off at the stop closest to the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes, one of the world’s greatest writers in the Spanish language, a premier novelist, and author of Don Quixote. The book, published in 1605, has been called the first modern novel. It’s …