Lectures on Don Quixote

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Spanish & Portuguese
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov ISBN: 9780544998087
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication: August 23, 2016
Imprint: Mariner Books Language: English
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780544998087
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication: August 23, 2016
Imprint: Mariner Books
Language: English

One of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic.

The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes, a timeless classic and one of the most deeply influential works in all of Western literature.

Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a preface by Fredson Bowers, this volume offers “a powerful, critical, and dramatic elaboration of the theme of illusion” (V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books).

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One of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic.

The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes, a timeless classic and one of the most deeply influential works in all of Western literature.

Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a preface by Fredson Bowers, this volume offers “a powerful, critical, and dramatic elaboration of the theme of illusion” (V. S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books).

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