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Carregando... Tilting at Windmills: A Novel of Cervantes and the Errant Knightde Julian Branston
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. An interesting premise. The author writes a speculative fiction based on Cervantes meeting an actual errant knight on whom he had unknowingly based his work, using the stories of his friend Pedro. Pedro had frequent unexpected encounters with the mad old man, and his stories to Cervantes inspired the novel. Meanwhile, Cervantes's success was earning him the enmity of some powerful and unscrupulous people who would stop at nothing to bring him down. Peopled with a wild cast of secondary characters, the novel is a quick, easy read. The writing simulates the writing of Cervantes's time, but is modern enough that a 21st century reader won't get lost in it. Highly recommended for light summer reading. I won't vouch for the historical accuracy of any of the details; I haven't read a biography of Cervantes. ( ) A Charming, amusing book. The main character is Miguel Cervantes at the time he was writing & publishing serially Don Quixote. A mad old soldier much like Quixote is another character in what is really a parallel story. The book, an homage to Cervantes & Don Quixote, addresses many of the same issues as the original, but still manages to be delightfully original itself. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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In 17th-century Valladolid, Spain's new capital, Miguel Cervantes is busy writing his comic novel, Don Quixote. Issued in instalments, it is fast making him the most popular author in the country, when three potential disasters strike: Cervantes discovers that there is a real Don Quixote, just like the character he thought he'd invented; a jealous poet concocts a scheme involving one of the novel's other characters in order to make Cervantes a laughing stock; and he falls in love with a beautiful, widowed but unavailable Duchess. Many duels, misunderstandings, politicking and betrayals later, Don Quixote himself comes to Cervantes' rescue. A wonderful evocation of Spain in the 17th century peopled with a cast of Chaucerian characters, this is a comedy in the mediaeval sense of the word. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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