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The New Adventures of Don Quixote (Hardcover)
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The New Adventures of Don Quixote (Hardcover)
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MULE. Who created us? ROCINANTE. What kind of dumb question is
that? The great master Cervantes, of course. Who else? MULE. God.
ROCINANTE. Listen you obstinate fool. We're animals. We don't have
to believe in God. That's meant for the superior species. MULE. Why
did Cervantes create us? ROCINANTE. Because he was a genius. I
think he made me a bit like himself. But those who ride us were not
so lucky. Tariq Ali's latest play, The New Adventures of Don
Quixote, can be read as homage to German poet and playwright
Bertolt Brecht as much as a playful tribute to Cervantes's
masterwork. The central characters from the original novel, Don
Quixote and Sancho Panza, are mounted on their beasts of burden,
Rocinante and the Mule, and Ali has them ride into the twenty-first
century, where they are confronted by old vices familiar to them:
war, greed, ethnic and religious prejudices, disappointed love, and
economic crisis. Their story is satirical, and their songs are sad
and angry. But there are odd moments of happiness for Quixote, when
he imagines that a wounded US colonel is Dulcinea and allows
himself to be seduced by her in a military hospital in Germany.
Primarily interested in discovering the meaning of life and how it
is molded by the world in which we live, Ali's theatrical device is
the conversation between the two animals - Rocinante the
philosopher and Mule the everyman who questions her relentlessly.
Accompanied by numerous color performance stills of the play from
its 2013 production in Germany, this volume is as intellectually
stimulating as it is uproariously humorous.
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