Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don Quixote
Manuel Duran and Fay Rogg
Abstract
Cervantes' Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. This book offers an excursion into Cervantes' novel and traces its impact on writers and thinkers across centuries and continents. How did Cervantes write such a rich tale? The chapters 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. They then provide a panoramic view of Cervantes' powerful influence on generations of writers ... More
Keywords: Cervantes, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, Descartes, Voltaire, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, Borges, masterpiece
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300110227 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300110227.001.0001 |
