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“El Criticón” appeared in three parts in 1651, 1653 and 1657, again under the name Lorenzo Gracián. Critilo, a shipwrecked man of reason and experience, meets on the island of St Helena Andrenio, who has grown up among animals and sees the world for the first time. Together they travel through Spain, France, Germany and Italy and through the seasons of life – the spring of childhood, the summer of youth, the autumn of maturity and the winter of old age – in search of Felisinda, an image of happiness. Allegorical figures and places expose the vices and illusions of society. The journey ends on the Island of Immortality, reached only through virtue and lasting merit. The novel is Gracián’s most extensive work and the summary of his moral thought; Schopenhauer valued it highly. Andrenio’s awakening on the island has been compared to Ibn Tufayl’s “Hayy ibn Yaqzan”.

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