Don Quixote. In 2 volumes
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Don Quixote. In 2 volumes
149.99 €
119.99 €
Four centuries ago, a prisoner in a Seville jail had a strange vision. Through the prison bars he saw two lonely travelers: one was very thin, on a bony nag, the other was fat, on a gray donkey. The prisoner began to carefully observe their amazing adventures and write down everything with his surviving hand... The most incomprehensible thing in this story remains the fact that the comic couple that appeared in the head of the Seville prisoner, has become close to everyone living on our planet. As if they actually live together with us, somewhere very, very close to us. Cervantes' novel "Don Quixote" is still one of the most published books in the world, in the number of languages into which it has been translated, the novel is second only to the Bible. In the late 1960s, the artist Savva Brodsky took up, as he himself put it, for the thousandth variation of illustrating the novel and again began to wash the great book in his heart, like gold-bearing sand (the artist began drawing Cervantes' characters as a schoolboy). What is important and extremely valuable is that Brodsky did not divide the world, as is customary, into Don Quixotes and Sancho Panzas. According to his pictorial version, one Don Quixote or one Sancho cannot exist, just as only one side of the coin cannot exist. The exalted knight is inexorably followed by a savvy squire: one personifies the idea, the other its practical application. But in Brodsky's illustrations there is also a third protagonist - the cracked earth, stretching into the merciless distance. In this human desert, Don Quixote's bright faith in the truth, which requires service and sacrifice, was born....
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