Lectures On Don Quixote: Nabokov's Literary Criticism of the Spanish Classic Challenging Satire to Reveal a Catalog of Cruelty
In these lectures, Vladimir Nabokov offers a challenging interpretation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote. Moving beyond the familiar idea of the novel as satire, he examines its catalog of cruelty and presents a distinctive work of literary criticism focused on the enduring Spanish classic.
About This Book
Vladimir Nabokov examines Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote through the lens of literary criticism.
These lectures question the conventional understanding of the novel as primarily a work of satire.
Instead, they focus attention on the cruelty represented and cataloged within the Spanish classic.
The book presents Nabokov’s distinctive critical engagement with one of world literature’s most widely studied works.
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