Cunning Idalgo Don Quixote Lamanka Cervantes

What can be said about the best novel by Miguel Cervantes, which would no longer be said? Don Quixote is four hundred years and almost all this time he stands in the first ten great 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 knightly novels - the fantasy of that time - Don Quixote absorbed all the layers of the Renaissance literature. The Moorish novels, the Plutovsky romance, the Spanish romaras, the poems of the Italian Renaissance - everything was reflected in this great work. In turn, the master of Cervantes had a tremendous influence on the development of world literature and art-it was no coincidence that Vladimir Nabokov claimed that "reading other novelists, with Don Quixote, in a sense, we would not part for a minute." But the most important thing is that after four hundred years, Don Quixote remains damn fascinating reading! In 1855, the outstanding French illustrator Gustav Dorea went to Spain, to the homeland of the "glorious knight to convey the local flavor and see the places that he glorified with his exploits." The artist created by the artist, published in 1863, and to this day serves as a decoration of more and more reprints of the novel by Cervantes in many languages ​​of the world.