La Mistlca Ciudad de Dios (1670)

The book introduces readers to literary links between this seventeenth-century prose of Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda and other Spanish Baroque masterpieces. The author reexamines the original text and discovers significant dimensions regarding its historical, religious, and literary importance. His research of the novelesque form and dialogical principles operative in La mistica ciudad de Dios provides convincing evidence of substantive prose literature.