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Quixote: The Novel and the World

2015-09-08 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2015-09-08
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Book Synopsis Quixote: The Novel and the World by : Ilan Stavans

Download or read book Quixote: The Novel and the World written by Ilan Stavans. This book was released on 2015-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied Quixote’s psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and even shapes the identities of entire nations. Spain uses it as a sort of constitution and travel guide; and the Americas were conquered, then sought their independence, with the knight as a role model. In Quixote, Ilan Stavans, one of today’s preeminent cultural commentators, explores these many manifestations. Training his eye on the tumultuous struggle between logic and dreams, he reveals the ways in which a work of literature is a living thing that influences and is influenced by the world around it.

Don Quixote

1901
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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:

Tales of Don Quixote

2006 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2006
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis Tales of Don Quixote by : Barbara Nichol

Download or read book Tales of Don Quixote written by Barbara Nichol. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the exploits of an idealistic Spanish country gentleman and his shrewd squire who set out, as knights of old, to search for adventure, right wrongs, and punish evil.

Sunflowers Under Fire

2019-04-12 Fiction
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Release : 2019-04-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Sunflowers Under Fire by : Diana Stevan

Download or read book Sunflowers Under Fire written by Diana Stevan. This book was released on 2019-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, Semi-finalist for 2019 Kindle Book Awards, Literary Fiction, and Honorable Mention 2020 Writers' Digest Self-Published Book Awards. In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war During WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar’s army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter’s forbidden love. Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Based on the true stories of her grandmother’s ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.

The Man Who Invented Fiction

2016-06-16 History
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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.

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