The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
What begins as the madcap misadventures of a sun-baked Castilian nobleman who has read too many chivalric romances soon becomes one of the most profound meditations on reality, illusion, and the indomitable human spirit ever committed to the page. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha chronicles the tragicomic odyssey of Alonso Quixano, who reinvents himself as the knight-errant Don Quixote, and his pragmatic squire Sancho Panza, as they ride forth across the plains of La Mancha to right wrongs, rescue damsels, and battle windmills mistaken for fearsome giants. Cervantes constructs his narrative with a genius that is simultaneously rollicking and deeply melancholic, giving the world its first modern novel and a hero whose name has become synonymous with visionary, idealistic folly. Beneath its surface comedy, this landmark work of Spanish Golden Age literature argues with startling philosophical force that the stories we tell ourselves are the architecture of our very identities. Cervantes masterfully blurs the boundary between author and character, fiction and reality, sanity and inspired madness — techniques that would not be fully appreciated until centuries of literary theory caught up with him. Illustrated here by José and Luis Jiménez y Aranda in this elegant Franklin Library edition, the novel's timeless questions linger long after the last page is turned: in a world stripped of enchantment, is the dreamer the fool, or the only one who truly sees?
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
What begins as the madcap misadventures of a sun-baked Castilian nobleman who has read too many chivalric romances soon becomes one of the most profound meditations on reality, illusion, and the indomitable human spirit ever committed to the page. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha chronicles the tragicomic odyssey of Alonso Quixano, who reinvents himself as the knight-errant Don Quixote, and his pragmatic squire Sancho Panza, as they ride forth across the plains of La Mancha to right wrongs, rescue damsels, and battle windmills mistaken for fearsome giants. Cervantes constructs his narrative with a genius that is simultaneously rollicking and deeply melancholic, giving the world its first modern novel and a hero whose name has become synonymous with visionary, idealistic folly. Beneath its surface comedy, this landmark work of Spanish Golden Age literature argues with startling philosophical force that the stories we tell ourselves are the architecture of our very identities. Cervantes masterfully blurs the boundary between author and character, fiction and reality, sanity and inspired madness — techniques that would not be fully appreciated until centuries of literary theory caught up with him. Illustrated here by José and Luis Jiménez y Aranda in this elegant Franklin Library edition, the novel's timeless questions linger long after the last page is turned: in a world stripped of enchantment, is the dreamer the fool, or the only one who truly sees?