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Don Quixote de la Mancha
Also spelled Don Quijote. Fictitious character,
created by the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, who is a poor gentleman of La Mancha,
the bare and monotonous plateau of central Spain. He read so many of the exaggerated
romances of chivalry of his day that he finally believed them to be true. One day he set
forth himself as a knight-errant on his old horse, Rosinante. A shrewd, good-natured
peasant of his village, Sancho Panza, went with him as his squire. Don Quixote regarded
everything he saw as extraordinary. Inns were castles and windmills were giants.
The word "quixotic," meaning
impractical and idealistic, and the phrase "tilting at a windmill," meaning to
fight against an imaginary difficulty, have become part of our language through 'Don
Quixote'.
The book was published in 1605, when
Cervantes was 57. Despite its huge success, he received little money because of widespread
pirating. While the fame of 'Don Quixote' spread through Europe, Cervantes lived in
poverty, dependent upon rich patrons. He published the second part of 'Don Quixote' in
1615 and died the following year.
Related
software:
Don Quixote
(CD-ROM for Windows).
Related
audio
cassettes:
Don Quixote (3
CDs).
Don Quixote (Dove
Ultimate Classics).
Don Quixote
[ABRIDGED].
Related
videos:
Don Quixote
(Animated).
Don Quixote
(1984) -- Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Don Quixote
(1992) -- Nina Ananiashvili.
Don Quixote
(1973) -- Rudolf Nureyev.
Don Quixote
(1988) -- The Kirov Ballet, Tatiana Terekhova.
Footnotes: Don
Quixote & La Bayadere.
Man of La Mancha
(1972).
Related
books:
An Analytical and
Bibliographical Guide to Criticism on Don Quijote (1790-1893).
Adventures of Don
Quixote.
Approaches to
Teaching Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Chivalric World
of Don Quixote: Style, Structure and Narrative Technique.
Critical
Introduction to Don Quixote.
Don Quijote: A
New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition).
Don Quixote.
Don Quixote
(Everyman's Library Series).
Don Quixote
(Modern Library).
Don Quixote
(Oxford Illustrated Classics).
Don Quixote:
Which Was a Dream.
Don Quixote De LA
Mancha.
Don Quijote de la
Mancha (Clasicos en Espanol).
Don Quixote De LA
Mancha (Oxford World's Classics).
Don Quixote in
England: The Aesthetics of Laughter.
Don Quixote Notes.
Don Quixote; The
Ormsby Translation, Revised, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism.
Man of LA Mancha.
The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature).
The History of
That Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De LA Mancha.
The Novel
According to Cervantes.
Further info:
Don Quijote
of La Mancha.
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