Cervantes Miguel De - Don Quixote - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Translated by P. A. Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd University College Cork Cervantes tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight - errant tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams Dulcinea del Toboso has fascinated generations of readers and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert Picasso and Richard Strauss. The tall thin knight and his short fat squire Sancho Panza have found their way into films cartoons and even computer games. Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day the books of chivalry this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated comic account of the contradictions of human nature. On his heroic journey Don Quixote meets characters of every class and condition from the prostitute Maritornes who is commended for her Christian charity to the Knight of the Green Coat who seems to embody some of the constraints of virtue. Cervantes greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader and does not leave the author outside its circle. Peter Motteux's fine eighteenth - century translation acknowledged as one of the best brilliantly succeeds in communicating the spirit of the original Spanish.
Title: Don Quixote
Author(s): Cervantes Miguel De
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Barcode: 9781853260360
Pages: 800 Pages
Publication Date: 5/5/1992
Series: Wordsworth Classics
(Editor: Carabine, Dr Keith (University of Kent at Canterbury))
Category: Fiction In Translation