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Description
A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a Preface by... read more
First Sentence
Even if allowance be made for the fading away of the Spanish in the twilight of translation, even so Sancho's cracks and proverbs are not very mirth provoking either in themselves or in their repetitious accumulation.
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Authors & Contributors
- Vladimir Nabokov (Author)
- Fredson Bowers
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