Fighting Windmills : Encounters with Don Quixote

by Manuel Durán and Fay R. Rogg

• ISBN13: 9780300110227
• ISBN10: 0300110227
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Cervantes'Don Quixoteis the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. InFighting WindmillsManuel Duran 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? Duran 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.

Author Biography

Manuel Duran is professor of Spanish literature (emeritus), Yale University.

Table of Contents

Cervantes	p. 15
Experimenting with existing narrative tools	p. 43
Construction Don Quixote	p. 57
A look into Cervantes's masterpiece	p. 83
Cervantine sallies into eighteenth-century France and England	p. 129
An abbreviated look at Cervantes in nineteenth-century France, Russia, and Spain	p. 165
Don Quixote and the new world : two American perspectives	p. 191
Sightings of Cervantes and his knight in the twentieth century	p. 219
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