![]() ![]() Still, after 400 years, the book remains with us, winding improbably through history like the famous errant knight and his companion, Sancho Panza. Nabokov, for instance, maintained it was one of the cruelest narratives ever. ![]() Of course, Don Quixote has its detractors, too. ![]() Milan Kundera fittingly summarized this unstoppable devotion when he said that “Cervantes teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.” And Borges, in his story about Pierre Menard, looked at it as the gravitational center of Hispanic civilization. Dostoyevsky reimagined its protagonist in The Idiot. Lionel Trilling argued that “all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.” Mark Twain was a passionate fan. Described as “the novel that invented modernity,” Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote of La Mancha has become since its publication in Spain in two parts-the first in 1605, the second in 1615-a machine of meaning, endlessly adapted into ballet, theater, dance, film, music, and television, not to mention a veritable tourist industry. ![]()
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