Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain

di Miranda France (Autore)

Orion Publishing Co, 2002

A humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer. When in 1987 Miranda France spent a year living in Madrid, the post-dictatorship ebullience was at its height. Pornography and soft drugs were legalised alongside more basic freedoms, such as divorce, party-affiliation and kissing in the street. In 1998 she returned to make a journey through the great cities and towns of central Spain - Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, Salamanca and others. With the new prosperity, much has changed. But much has also endured, as she learns from the people she meets, who include a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers and a Castilian separatist. She also discovers that Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE' published in 1605 and the most translated book after the Bible - is a work of genius which still helps to explain the Spanish character: today's Spaniards still suffer from Don Quixote's delusions, and are as stubborn, inflexible and unrealistic as they have always been.

• Autore: Miranda France
• Editore: Orion Publishing Co
• Anno: 2002
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 204 x 167 mm
• Peso: 248 gr.
• EAN: 9780753813843

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