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Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Release : 1901
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Book Synopsis Don Quixote by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This book was released on 1901. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Egginton
Release : 2016-06-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Man Who Invented Fiction by : William Egginton
Download or read book The Man Who Invented Fiction written by William Egginton. This book was released on 2016-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing.' In Cervantes' time, 'fiction' was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, or 'poetry' which might be invented, but had to conform to strict principles. Don Quixote tells the story of a poor nobleman, addled from reading too many books on chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off to put the world to rights. The book was hugely entertaining, broke the existing rules, devised a new set and, in the process, created a new, modern hybrid form we know today as the novel. The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes's life and the world he lived in, showing how his life and influences converged in his work, and how his work – especially Don Quixote – radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics and science, and how the world today would be unthinkable without it.
Author : William Childers
Release : 2014-03-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Transnational Cervantes by : William Childers
Download or read book Transnational Cervantes written by William Childers. This book was released on 2014-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. Instead, he examines early modern Spanish cultural production as an antecedent to contemporary postcolonial literature, especially Latin American fiction of the past half century. In order to construct his new context for reading Cervantes, Childers proceeds in three distinct phases. First, Cervantes' relation to the Western literary canon is reconfigured, detaching him from the realist novel and associating him, instead, with magic realism. Second, Childers provides an innovative reading of The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda as a transnational romance, exploring cultural boundaries and the hybridization of identities. Finally, Childers explores traces of and similarities to Cervantes in contemporary fiction. Theoretically eclectic and methodologically innovative, Transnational Cervantes opens up many avenues for research and debate, aiming to bring Cervantes' writings forward into the brave new world of our postcolonial age.
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Release : 1896
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Book Synopsis The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Download or read book The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This book was released on 1896. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Release : 1821
Genre : Knights and knighthood
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Book Synopsis The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha by : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Download or read book The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This book was released on 1821. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
