The first part of the delightful history of the most ingenious knight Don Quixote of the Mancha

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519 pages

Langue : English

Publié 1937 par P.F. Collier & Son.

Numéro OCLC :
18680064

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Although published nearly 400 years ago in Spanish, this parody of the chivalrous life remains amazingly familiar in translation today-perhaps from the extensive influence it has played on novelists, playwrights and even composers over the centuries, or perhaps from its eternal story of the childlike and comic view of a decayed world by a madman stuck in a golden past.

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a publié une critique de Don Quixote par Miguel de Cervantes

Starts delightful, gets repetitive

I started reading this with a group of friends, taking turns to read chapters aloud. For the first 5-10 chapters I was enthralled, finding it an utterly charming satire of essentially the same genre that Monty Python and the Holy Grail sends up. But after that it felt like it kept repeating the same jokes, and started to wear thin enough that I didn't actually finish it.

Sujets

  • Spanish fiction -- 17 century -- Translations into English.
  • Adventure fiction, Spanish.
  • Quests -- Fiction.
  • Squires -- Spain -- Fiction.
  • Quixote, Don (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Spain -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction.