Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don Quixote
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Published by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2006
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- Title
- Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don Quixote
- Author
- Rogg, Fay R
- Publisher
- YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300110227
- ISBN 13
- 9780300110227
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 Dur n 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? Dur n 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.
How did Cervantes write such a rich tale? Dur n 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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Manuel Durán is professor of Spanish literature (emeritus), Yale University. Fay R. Rogg is chairman and professor of Spanish, Modern Languages Department, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York.
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