{"product_id":"a-companion-to-don-quixote-anthony-close-9781855662087","title":"A Companion to Don Quixote","description":"An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe purpose of this book is to help the English-speaking reader, with an interest in Spanish literature but without specialised knowledge of Cervantes, to understand his long and complex masterpiece: its major themes, its structure, and the inter-connections between its component parts. \u003cbr\u003e Beginning from a review of Don Quixote's relation to Cervantes's life, literary career, and its social and cultural context, Anthony Close goes on to examine the structure and distinctive nature of Part I (1605) and Part II (1615), the conception of the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho, Cervantes's word-play and narrative manner, and the historical evolution of posterity's interpretation of the novel, with particular attention to its influence on the theory of the genre. \u003cbr\u003e One of the principal questions tackled is the paradoxical incongruity between Cervantes's conception of his novel as a light work ofentertainment, without any explicitly acknowledged profundity, and posterity's view of it as a universally symbolic masterpiece, revolutionary in the context of its own time, and capable of meaning something new and different to each succeeding age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ANTHONY CLOSE, now retired, was Reader in Spanish at the University of Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Close\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1855662086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781855662087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tamesis Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d","brand":"Anthony Close","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130643968255,"sku":"9781855662087","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9e87434-6252-4cc1-910e-469b3623b805.jpg?v=1687470511","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-companion-to-don-quixote-anthony-close-9781855662087","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}