Michael Armstrong Roche: 1 book
Cervantes' Epic Novel
Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers...
