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Don Quixote as Children's Literature - A Tradition in English Words and Pictures (Paperback)
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Cervantes's Don Quixote, recently chosen the world's best book by
well-known authors from fifty-four countries, has from its
publication in 1605 been widely translated and imitated. Throughout
the world "quixotic" and "tilting at windmills" are commonplaces,
and the thin knight-errant and his plump squire Sancho Panza
familiar icons. Critics regard Cervantes as the inventor of
fiction, author of the first novel. Consistently judged too long
and complex to be read in its entirety, Don Quixote, has always
inspired abbreviations and adaptations. Major and now forgotten
writers were deeply influenced by the Spanish author; in English
they wrote chapbooks, satiric verses, essays, plays, and novels.
Cervantes's post chivalric romance inspired by the Counter
Reformation in Spain became a classic for Protestant England that
condemned Catholic medieval romances. Don Quixote, as children's
literature, informed by adult renderings, is a major but neglected
part of this remarkable tradition. In extravagant Edwardian books,
collections, home libraries, and schoolbooks, words and pictures by
distinguished artists retold adventures both noble and "mad."
Recent adaptations-including comics and graphic novels-express
current difference but also support the knight-errant's affinity to
children and lasting influence.
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