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Product: Quixote: The Novel and the World

A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world.

The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied Quixote’s psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and even shapes the identities of entire nations. Spain uses it as a sort of constitution and travel guide; and the Americas were conquered, then sought their independence, with the knight as a role model.

In Quixote, Ilan Stavans, one of today’s preeminent cultural commentators, explores these many manifestations. Training his eye on the tumultuous struggle between logic and dreams, he reveals the ways in which a work of literature is a living thing that influences and is influenced by the world around it.

Product: How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish Restless Books

Product: Popol Vuh: A Retelling Restless Books

Product: Borges, the Jew (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) State University of New York Press

Product: The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America (Pitt Latin American Series) University of Pittsburgh Press

Product: On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language Used Book in Good Condition Brand: Viking Adult

Product: The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology Used Book in Good Condition Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Product: The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery Penn State University Press

Product: Don Quixote of La Mancha: (in Spanglish) Penn State University Press

Product: The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies (Oxford Handbooks) Oxford University Press

Product: Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language Harper Perennial

Product: Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America University of New Mexico Press