| Product Summary | | ISBN: 9788437601175 | | Publish Date: 6/1/1983 | | Buy.com Sku: 39867471 | | Item#: BE24WJ | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.25H x 4.5L x 1.25T |
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| | | El Quijote se publica en el primer tercio del siglo XVII. Cervantes sintetiza en su obra magna aspectos fundamentales tanto del Renacimiento como del Barroco, pero lo importante de su obra no esta en su adscripcion a uno u otro movimiento, sino en la superacion de ambos. Al margen de consideraciones esteticas, la marcada -e inigualable- personalidad de sus protagonistas es lo que hara de Don Quijote una obra universal, mas alla de cualquier frontera literaria e historica.
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Perhaps the greatest--and certainly the most famous--novel ever written in Spanish, "Don Quijote de la Mancha" is the classic picaresque tale of a knight-errant living in a world which has no use for him. Written as a history, it gives an account of the life of Don Quijote, a deluded 17th-century Spaniard who believes himself to be a medieval knight and attempts to win renown through acts of chivalry that are invariably disastrous or absurd. One of the earliest examples of the novel form, it remains to this day among the most influential and best-loved works of fiction in any language.
| Author Bio| Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra | | The Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet Miguel de Cervantes, was the creator of Don Quixote, and the most famous figure in Spanish literature. He was born into a noble family near Madrid and entered the Italian army when he was 23; he was wounded at the battle of Lepanto a year later, permanently crippling his left hand. En route back to Spain in 1575, he and his brother Rodrigo were captured by Turks and sold into slavery. Cervantes was released in 1580, and after returning to Madrid he held several temporary administrative posts and began to write. In 1584 he married a woman 18 years his junior and left her three years later. For the next 20 years he led a nomadic existence and was imprisoned at least twice for debt. His first major work was GALATEA (1858), a pastoral romance, followed by DON QUIXOTE which, according to tradition, he wrote in prison at La Mancha. DON QUIXOTE did not make him rich, but it brought him international renown as a man of letters. In 1606 Cervantes settled in Madrid, where he remained the rest of his life. |
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