International Don Quixote

Abstract

Ever since its appearance, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote has exerted a powerful influence on the artistic imagination all around the world. This cross-cultural volume offers important new readings of canonical reinterpretations of the Quixote: from Unamuno to Borges, from Ortega y Gasset to Calvino, from Mark Twain to Carlos Fuentes. But to the prestigious list of well-known authors who acknowledged Cervantes’ influence, it also adds new and surprising names, such as that of Subcomandante Marcos, who gives a Cervantine twist to his Mexican Zapatista revolution. Attention is paid to successful contemporary authors such as Paul Auster and Ricardo Piglia, as well as to the forgotten voice of the Belgian writer Joseph Grandgagnage. The volume breaks new ground by taking into consideration Belgian music and Dutch translations, as well as Cervantine procedures in Terry Gilliam’s Lost in La Mancha. In all, this book constitutes an indispensable guide for the further study of the Quixote’s Nachleben and offers exciting proposals for rereading Cervantes.Ever since its appearance, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote has exerted a powerful influence on the artistic imagination all around the world. This cross-cultural volume offers important new readings of canonical reinterpretations of the Quixote : from Unamuno to Borges, from Ortega y Gasset to Calvino, from Mark Twain to Carlos Fuentes. But to the prestigious list of well-known authors who acknowledged Cervantes' influence, it also adds new and surprising names, such as that of Subcomandante Marcos, who gives a Cervantine twist to his Mexican Zapatista revolution. Attention is paid to success. Preface 3 Dagmar Vandebosch Quixotism as a Poetic and National Project in the Early Twentieth-Century Spanish Essay 15 Patrick Collard A Portrait of Cervantes as “A Learned Sancho Panza”: The Quixote in Ramón J. Sender’s Thought before the Civil War 33 Kristine Vanden Berghe The Quixote in the Stories of Subcomandante Marcos 53 Reindert Dhondt The Intrusive Incertitude of the Quixote or the Emergence of World Literature According to Carlos Fuentes 71 Nadia Lie Who is the Reader of Pierre Menard? Borges on Cervantes Revisited 89 María Stoopen Cervantine Instances of Unreliability in Ricardo Piglia’s “Assumed Name” 109 Christian De Paepe Don Quixote on Belgian Staves 137 Hendrik van Gorp Don Quixote in the Netherlands: Translations and Adaptations of Cervantes’ Novel 157 Lieven D'hulst Don Quixote Travelling Through the Young Belgium 169 Jan Herman Did Don Quixote and Cervantes Read the Same Books? 183 Bart Van Den Bossche Of Humorous Heroes and Non-Existent Knights: Don Quixote in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature 197 Ulla Musarra-Schrøder Cervantes in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy 219 Theo D'haen Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain’s Modernities 237 Brigitte Adriaensen Getting Lost in La Mancha: The Unma(s)king of Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 251 Notes on Contributors 271