{"product_id":"quixote-the-novel-and-the-world","title":"Quixote: The Novel and the World","description":"A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world.\nThe 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.\nIn 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. 8 pages of illustrations\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0393083020\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0393083020.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Stavans, Ilan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41662931501114,"sku":"DBV.0393083020.A","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0393083020-0.jpg?v=1789789640","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/quixote-the-novel-and-the-world","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}