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Don Quixote

Autor Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Ilustrat de Paul Brizzi, Gaëtan Brizzi
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 oct 2026

În câmpiile aride și prăfuite din La Mancha, la începutul secolului al XVII-lea, timpul pare să se fi oprit pentru un hidalgo de vreo cincizeci de ani. Alegerea acestui decor spaniol nu este întâmplătoare; asprimea peisajului contrastează violent cu iluziile cavalerești ale lui Alonso Quixano, oferind scena perfectă pentru o prăbușire a mitului în realitate. Suntem de părere că Don Quixote nu este doar o parodie a genului cavaleresc, ci o explorare melancolică a condiției umane, unde granița dintre nebunie și noblețe devine fluidă. Subliniem modul în care Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra revoluționează structura narativă prin utilizarea metateatrului și a intertextualității, tehnici ce conferă romanului o modernitate surprinzătoare chiar și după patru secole. Stilul are ceva din profunzimea psihologică și ironia fină pe care o regăsim în Don Quixote de la Mancha din seria Oxford World's Classics, fără să fie o imitație — Cervantes reușește aici să echilibreze discursurile retorice arhaice ale cavalerului cu spiritul practic și pământean al lui Sancho Panza. Această lucrare se poziționează ca punctul culminant al operei sale, rafinând temele explorate în Exemplary Stories. Dacă în acele povestiri autorul experimenta cu ambiguitatea morală și realismul satiric, în Don Quixote el atinge o maturitate filosofică ce l-a determinat pe Dostoievski să o numească „cea mai mare expresie a minții umane”. Este un text dens, dar ritmat de aventurile burlești ale celor doi protagoniști, oferind o experiență de lectură ce trece constant de la râs la o reflecție profundă asupra viselor noastre.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781419791772
ISBN-10: 141979177X
Pagini: 200
Editura: Abrams Comicarts

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul care dorește să descopere originile romanului modern, această ediție este esențială. Veți câștiga nu doar plăcerea unei aventuri clasice, ci și o înțelegere profundă a modului în care ficțiunea ne modelează percepția asupra realității. Este o recomandare pentru oricine apreciază umorul inteligent și personajele care refuză să se conformeze unei lumi lipsite de magie.


Despre autor

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) a fost un romancier, poet și dramaturg spaniol, considerat cea mai importantă figură a literaturii de limbă spaniolă. Viața sa a fost la fel de tumultuoasă ca a personajelor sale, lucrând ca perceptor de taxe și luptând în bătălia de la Lepanto. Deși a scris poezie în Poemas și proză scurtă de succes, gloria sa eternă este legată de Don Quixote. Supranumit „Principele Geniilor”, Cervantes a reușit să transforme experiențele sale de viață și dificultățile financiare într-o operă ce a definit canonul literar occidental.


Notă biografică

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a writer considered to be one of the greatest Spanish writers in history. An author from a relatively poor background, much of his life was spent as a soldier, spy, or doing whatever odd jobs his connections afforded him, and very little of his life can be confirmed through surviving sources. His most famous work, Don Quixote, was written in 1605, toward the end of his eventful life, and was an instant success upon publication. A skewering satire of the chivalric romances popular in Spanish literature during the time period, he was one of the first Spanish authors to depict real life and everyday speech in his stories. World Book Day is celebrated every April to commemorate the day he was buried, April 23, 1616. Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi are twin brothers born and raised in Paris. They studied at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs, where their passion for film and fine art led them to study animation. During the course of their nearly fifty-year career, they have received the Ministry of French Culture's Prix de Rome, an arts residency at the Villa Medici, the title of Chevaliers de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Ministry of French Culture, and nationwide acclaim for their literary graphic novel adaptations in France. They have worked as animators, sequence directors, and storyboard artists on such animated films as Fantasia 2000, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Salma Hayek-produced animated adaptation of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, and more.

Descriere scurtă

Don Quixote (The history of the valorous and wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection that cites Don Quixote as authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written." The story follows the adventures of an hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality. It had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), as well as the word "quixotic" and the epithet "Lothario." Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle H lo se and Wilhelm Meister.

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray, tilting at windmills, fighting with friars, and distorting the rural Spanish landscape into a fantasy of impenetrable fortresses and wicked sorcerers. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with.


Recenzii

"The highest creation of genius has been achieved by Shakespeare and Cervantes, almost alone." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky



"What a monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!" —Thomas Mann



"Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer vitality....The parody has become a paragon." —Vladimir Nabokov

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