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 Durn 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? Durn 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.
Titel
Fighting Windmills
Untertitel
Encounters with Don Quixote
Autor
EAN
9780300134964
ISBN
978-0-300-13496-4
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
01.10.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Anzahl Seiten
288
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch
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