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Indlæser... The Man Who Invented Fiction : How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern Worldaf William Egginton
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"...interested in what Cervantes' life reveals about how Don Quixote came to be, and how it might prove...that Quixote... offers a first definition of what fiction is and what it does." Tilhører Forlagsserien
"In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world."-- No library descriptions found. |
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Back in my high school Spanish course I had heard some things about Cervantes, and I got to see The Man of La Mancha, but I didn't really retain as much as I should have. This covers a good deal of the life of Miguel Cervantes and talks about how his life experiences contributed to his creative genius.
It was pretty well done, but there isn't much to say that wasn't put in the blurb, so I give it 4 out of 5. ( )