Don Quixote's Delusions
€13.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780753813843 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miranda France |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.246 |
| Publishing Date | 05/09/2002 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.11 |
| Tax | €0.79 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.90 |
| Availability | 3 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.