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Fighting Windmills : Encounters with Don Quixote by Manuel Durán, Fay R. Rogg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Durán 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? Durán 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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Author

Manuel Durán, Fay R. Rogg

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300110227

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance