Los Sueños is a satirical prose work by the Spanish Baroque writer Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo...

. Written between 1605 and 1622, it was first published in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

in 1627 under the title Sueños y discursos de verdades descubridoras de abusos, vicios y engaños en todos los oficios del mundo ("Dreams and discourses on truths revealing abuses, vices and deceptions in all the professions and estates of the world").

Los Sueños consists of five sections, each describing a satirical dream vision of the next world:

1. El Sueño del Juicio Final ("The Dream of the Last Judgement")
2. El Aguacil Endemoniado ("The Bedevilled Constable")
3. Sueño del Infierno ("The Vision of Hell")
4. El Mundo por de dentro ("The World from the Inside")
5. Sueño de la Muerte ("The Dream of Death")