Quixote: The Novel and the World

by Ilan Stavans

Book Overview

The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha --an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into "a knight in skirts." Freud studied Quixote's psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393083020
• ISBN13: 9780393083026
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"