El Vélez de Guevara, Luis 1579-1644 creator text utu 2004 monographic es 1 online resource : multiple file formats "El Diablo Cojuelo" by Luis Vélez de Guevara is a satirical novel published in 1641. A student frees a devil trapped in a bottle, and the grateful demon rewards him by lifting the roofs off houses across Spanish society, revealing people's true natures and hidden vices. Through ten episodes of airborne leaps from place to place, the work offers a biting moral critique of seventeenth-century social classes and customs, written in the elaborate conceptista style characteristic of Spanish Baroque literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_diablo_cojuelo Wikipedia page about this book: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_diablo_cojuelo Release date is 2004-05-01 Stan Goodman, DP Spanish Team, Virginia Paque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Original publication data not identified Devil -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12457 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12457 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133309.0 12457