Хитроумный идальго Дон Кихот Ламанчский

What can be said about Miguel Cervantes' best novel that hasn't already been said? "Don Quixote" is four hundred years old and almost all this time it has been in the top ten of the greatest books of mankind. And the Nobel Institute declared it the best work of art in the history of world literature. Conceived as a parody of chivalric romances - the fantasy of the time - "Don Quixote" absorbed all the layers of Renaissance literature. Moorish tales, a picaresque novel, Spanish romances, poems of the Italian Renaissance - everything is reflected in this great work. In turn, Cervantes' masterpiece had a tremendous impact on the development of world literature and art - it is no coincidence that Vladimir Nabokov argued that "when reading other novelists, we in some sense will not part with Don Quixote for a minute." But the most important thing is that even after four hundred years, Don Quixote remains a damn fascinating read! In 1855, the outstanding French illustrator Gustave Dore went to Spain, to the homeland of "the glorious knight, to convey the local color and see the places that he glorified with his exploits." The cycle of illustrations created by the artist, published in 1863, to this day serves as an adornment for more and more new editions of Cervantes' novel in many languages of the world. Translator Lyubimov N. (best translation) illustrations by Gustave Doré