Fighting Windmills

Encounters with Don Quixote

By: Manuel Duran, Fay R Rogg

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Hardcover | 1 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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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 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.

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"Fighting Windmills begins as an illumination of the Quixote in terms of the life and era of Cervantes. Duran and Rogg then trace the immense influence of Don Quixote upon major European literature from Voltaire to Dostoyevsky, and upon American writing from Melville to Thurber. This book instructs while it entertains, and the reverse as well."-Harold Bloom

-- Harold Bloom

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800 Language & Linguistics Reference, Dictionaries & Guides Education

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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