International Don Quixote / edited by Theo D'haen and Reindert Dhondt.

• Superior document: Textext ; 57
• TeilnehmendeR: Haen, Theo d'.; Hondt, Roger d'.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 57.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Ever since its appearance, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote has exerted a powerful influence on the artistic imagination all around the world. This cross-cultural volume offers important new readings of canonical reinterpretations of the Quixote : from Unamuno to Borges, from Ortega y Gasset to Calvino, from Mark Twain to Carlos Fuentes. But to the prestigious list of well-known authors who acknowledged Cervantes’ influence, it also adds new and surprising names, such as that of Subcomandante Marcos, who gives a Cervantine twist to his Mexican Zapatista revolution. Attention is paid to successful contemporary authors such as Paul Auster and Ricardo Piglia, as well as to the forgotten voice of the Belgian writer Joseph Grandgagnage. The volume breaks new ground by taking into consideration Belgian music and Dutch translations, as well as Cervantine procedures in Terry Gilliam’s Lost in La Mancha . In all, this book constitutes an indispensable guide for the further study of the Quixote’s Nachleben and offers exciting proposals for rereading Cervantes.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Quixotism as a Poetic and National Project in the Early Twentieth-Century Spanish Essay / Dagmar Vandebosch -- A Portrait of Cervantes as “A Learned Sancho Panza”: The Quixote in Ramón J. Sender’s Thought before the Civil War / Patrick Collard -- The Quixote in the Stories of Subcomandante Marcos / Kristine Vanden Berghe -- The Intrusive Incertitude of the Quixote or the Emergence of World Literature According to Carlos Fuentes / Reindert Dhondt -- Who is the Reader of Pierre Menard? Borges on Cervantes Revisited / Nadia Lie -- Cervantine Instances of Unreliability in Ricardo Piglia’s “Assumed Name” / María Stoopen -- Don Quixote on Belgian Staves / Christian de Paepe -- Don Quixote in the Netherlands: Translations and Adaptations of Cervantes’ Novel / Hendrik van Gorp -- Don Quixote Travelling Through the Young Belgium / Lieven D’Hulst -- Did Don Quixote and Cervantes Read the Same Books? / Jan Herman -- Of Humorous Heroes and Non-Existent Knights: Don Quixote in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature / Bart van den Bossche -- Cervantes in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy / Ulla Musarra-Schrøder -- Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain’s Modernities / Theo D’haen -- Getting Lost in La Mancha: The Unma(s)king of Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote / Brigitte Adriaensen -- Notes on Contributors.