Don Quixote de La Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes

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Book in Italian

2017 Mondadori

«And so, by dint of sleeping little and reading a lot, his brain dried up so much that he lost his reason. His imagination was filled with everything he read in his books: enchantments, arguments, battles, challenges, wounds, declarations, loves, storms and impossible extravagances.»


Don Quixote is the symbol of blind faith in an ideal that resists any outrage, while his squire Sancho is the living allegory of common sense, of the even thankless concreteness of reality. But Cervantes' novel presents itself as a much more stratified and complex work, impossible to constrain within the limits of this unilateral stylization: it is at the same time a gallery of the literary genres of his time, from love poetry to the picaresque novel to the pastoral novel; the mirror of the controversial transition from the Renaissance ideals of harmony and measure to the inventive madness of the Baroque; but also and above all a timeless reflection on human nature and its unavoidable contradictions.

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Description

Book in Italian

2017 Mondadori

«And so, by dint of sleeping little and reading a lot, his brain dried up so much that he lost his reason. His imagination was filled with everything he read in his books: enchantments, arguments, battles, challenges, wounds, declarations, loves, storms and impossible extravagances.»


Don Quixote is the symbol of blind faith in an ideal that resists any outrage, while his squire Sancho is the living allegory of common sense, of the even thankless concreteness of reality. But Cervantes' novel presents itself as a much more stratified and complex work, impossible to constrain within the limits of this unilateral stylization: it is at the same time a gallery of the literary genres of his time, from love poetry to the picaresque novel to the pastoral novel; the mirror of the controversial transition from the Renaissance ideals of harmony and measure to the inventive madness of the Baroque; but also and above all a timeless reflection on human nature and its unavoidable contradictions.

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