The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha
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The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha
19.99 €
What can be said about Miguel Cervantes' best novel that hasn't already been said? "Don Quixote" is four hundred years old and for almost all that time it stands in the top ten of the greatest books of mankind. And the Nobel Institute has declared it the best work of fiction in the history of world literature.
Conceived as a parody of chivalric novels - fantasy of the time - "Don Quixote" absorbed all the layers of Renaissance literature. Moorish tales, knave novel, Spanish romancero, poems of the Italian Renaissance - everything was reflected in this great work. In turn, Cervantes' masterpiece had a colossal influence on the development of world literature and art - it is not by chance that Vladimir Nabokov claimed that "reading other novelists, with Don Quixote, in a sense, we will not part with Don Quixote for a minute".
But most importantly, even four hundred years later, Don Quixote remains a damn fascinating read!
In 1855, the outstanding French illustrator Gustave Doré went to Spain, the birthplace of "the glorious knight to convey the local color and see the places he glorified with his exploits." The cycle of illustrations created by the artist, published in 1863, still adorns new and new editions of Cervantes' novel in many languages of the world.
Conceived as a parody of chivalric novels - fantasy of the time - "Don Quixote" absorbed all the layers of Renaissance literature. Moorish tales, knave novel, Spanish romancero, poems of the Italian Renaissance - everything was reflected in this great work. In turn, Cervantes' masterpiece had a colossal influence on the development of world literature and art - it is not by chance that Vladimir Nabokov claimed that "reading other novelists, with Don Quixote, in a sense, we will not part with Don Quixote for a minute".
But most importantly, even four hundred years later, Don Quixote remains a damn fascinating read!
In 1855, the outstanding French illustrator Gustave Doré went to Spain, the birthplace of "the glorious knight to convey the local color and see the places he glorified with his exploits." The cycle of illustrations created by the artist, published in 1863, still adorns new and new editions of Cervantes' novel in many languages of the world.
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