Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina.
El verano de Cervantes arises from a lifetime reading Don Quixote de la Mancha. During the process of writing this book, Antonio Muñoz Molina is interspersing memories of his childhood and his first readings with the revelation of the place that Don Quixote has occupied in his literary vocation, also showing its influence on other authors, such as Melville, Balzac, Joyce, Thomas Mann or Mark Twain, who have consolidated the novel as the supreme narrative form following in the footsteps of Cervantes.
An exciting and passionate reading of Don Quixote that extraordinarily mixes literary research and personal memory, and contextualizes the genius of Cervantes’ masterpiece, an inexhaustible reading to understand the art of the novel.
In the words of Muñoz Molina himself, “a central theme in the novel is the way in which fictions affect the human mind, nourish it, entertain it and can upset it when it does not know how to distinguish it from reality. This concern seems even more relevant in these times when technologies far more powerful than printing have the power to hypnotize our minds to a degree of delirium.
Pages: 448
Publisher: Seix Barral
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788432244988
RPP: 21,75 euros
