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DON QUIXOTE
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| By: |
Miguel Cervantes, Tom Griffith, David Whitlock |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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| ISBN 10: |
1848704747 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781848704749 |
| Publisher: |
WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2013 |
| Edition: |
Revised ed. |
| Series: |
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature |
| Pages: |
1131 |
| Description: |
Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. |
| Synopsis: |
According to tradition Cervantes first conceived his comic masterpiece in jail - his avowed intent being to debunk the romances of chivalry. From first publication Don Quixote was a best-seller, initially taken as a knockabout account of a mad Spanish gentleman and his cowardly peasant squire, but later reinterpreted as an enlightenment text, a representation of universal human nature, a myth of a tragic hero defending man's nobler aspirations, a study in alienation, a spiritual autobiography, a metaphor for Spain's imperial decline, an experimental novel that shaped later prose fiction, a tragedy and comedy in one, and a demonstration that ambiguity and uncertainty can lie at the centre of great art and that great art can be comic.Smollet's vigorous and lively translation brilliantly catches the feeling and tone of the Spanish original. It is a comic novelist's homage to a comic novelist. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |