Although best known the world over for his masterpiece novel, Don
Quixote de la Mancha, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the
antics of the would-be knight-errant and his simple squire only
represent a fraction of the trials and tribulations, both in the
literary world and in society at large, of this complex man. Poet,
playwright, soldier, slave, satirist, novelist, political
commentator, and literary outsider, Cervantes achieved a minor
miracle by becoming one of the rarest of things in the Early-Modern
world of letters: an international best-seller during his lifetime,
with his great novel being translated into multiple languages
before his death in 1616. The principal objective of The Oxford
Handbook of Cervantes is to create a resource in English that
provides a fully comprehensive overview of the life, works, and
influences of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). This volume
contains seven sections, exploring in depth Cervantes's life and
how the trials, tribulations, and hardships endured influenced his
writing. Cervantistas from numerous countries, including the United
Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and France
offer their expertise with the most up-to-date research and
interpretations to complete this wide-ranging, but detailed,
compendium of a writer not known for much other than his famous
novel outside of the Spanish-speaking world. Here we explore his
famous novelDon Quixote de la Mancha, his other prose works, his
theatrical output, his poetry, his sources, influences, and
contemporaries, and finally reception of his works over the last
four hundred years.
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