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DON QUIXOTE'S DELUSIONS
TRAVELS IN CASTILIAN SPAIN |
| By: |
Miranda France |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£7.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1780225792 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781780225791 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
20 December, 2012 |
| Edition: |
Digital original |
| Synopsis: |
A humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer.When in 1987 Miranda France spent a year living in Madrid, the post-dictatorship ebullience was at its height. Pornography and soft drugs were legalised alongside more basic freedoms, such as divorce, party-affiliation and kissing in the street. In 1998 she returned to make a journey through the great cities and towns of central Spain - Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, Salamanca and others. With the new prosperity, much has changed. But much has also endured, as she learns from the people she meets, who include a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers and a Castilian separatist. She also discovers that Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE' published in 1605 and the most translated book after the Bible - is a work of genius which still helps to explain the Spanish character: today's Spaniards still suffer from Don Quixote's delusions, and are as stubborn, inflexible and unrealistic as they have always been. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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