Don Quixote, Hardcover

Descriere

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote-pursuing his vision of glory in a ?mercantile age-and his shrewd, skeptical man?servant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on the way. The first and still the greatest of all European novels, Don Quixote has been as important for the modern world as the poems of Homer were for the ancients. Translated by P. A. Motteux

Despre autor

Miguel de Cervantes

romancier, poet și dramaturg spaniol · 1547–1616

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra a fost un romancier, poet și dramaturg spaniol, considerat simbolul literaturii spaniole, autorul celebrului roman „Iscusitul hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha” sau prescurtat: „Don Quijote de La Mancha”, în spaniolă „El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha”, pe care mulți critici literari l-au considerat primul roman modern și una din cele mai valoroase opere ale literaturii…