Javier de la Puente Sánchez
Cervantes no fue un escritor multiculturalista cuatro siglos antes de que este concepto existiese. Su experiencia vital corno soldado en la batalla de Lepan-to. como preso en Argel de los piratas berberiscos y el estudio concreto de todas las referencias que hace en su Obra Maestra a ios moros, ie reahrrnan como un a i o, cató-lico y español, que tenía una enorme compasión hacia los moriscos, pero que no podía identificarse con su punto de vista.
Cervantes wasn't a multiculturalist writer who lived four centuries before this concept existed. His life experience as a soldier in the Lepanto Battle and as a prisioner of berber pirates in Algiers and also the concrete study of all the references he makes in his Masterpiece towards the Moors, reaffirm him as a Catholic and Spanish author, who had a huge compassion towards the Moorish, but who couldn't be able to identify him with their point of view.