Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don QuixoteYale University Press, 01.01.2006 - 276 Seiten Cervantes’ Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. In Fighting Windmills Manuel Durán and Fay R. Rogg offer a beautifully written excursion into Cervantes’ great novel and trace its impact on writers and thinkers across centuries and continents. How did Cervantes write such a rich tale? Durán and Rogg explore the details of Cervantes’ life, the techniques with which he constructed the novel, and the central themes of the adventures of Don Quixote and his earthy squire Sancho Panza. The authors then provide an insightful, panoramic view of Cervantes’ powerful influence on generations of writers as diverse as Descartes, Voltaire, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, and Borges. |
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Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don Quixote Manuel Duran,Fay R Rogg Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2008 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adventures Ahab appears become beginning Benito Pérez Galdós Candide Cervantes Cervantes's novel chapter common sense created critical culture Descartes dialogue Dickens Don Quixote doubt dream duchess duke Dulcinea eighteenth century enchanted everyday experiences fiction Flaubert flawed hero France French friends Galdós Gatsby genre Gogol helmet heroic Huck Finn human humor Ibid ideals ideas imagination inspired interpretation knight knight-errant La Mancha literary literature lives magic main characters Mancha Mark Twain master Ménard Miguel de Cervantes mind modern Monsignor Quixote narrative Pangloss parody perhaps Persiles philosophical picaresque novel Pickwick play quest Quixote and Sancho Quixote's reader reality Renaissance romances of chivalry Sancho Panza Sawyer short stories social society Spain Spanish squire Stendhal tells Tennessee Williams things tion Tom Sawyer trans truth Turgenev vantes vantes's viewpoint Voltaire Voltaire's words writers xote young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 4 - In any genre it may happen that the first great example contains the whole potentiality of the genre. It has been said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato. It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.