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treyf 22's List: 05_Renaissance/Baroque
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Our Canadian Friends to the North clearly see Bush for what he really is and what we refuse to acknowledge ~ a moral coward masquerading as a world leader. Posed on his wooden horse of hubris he has become a modern day Don Quixote flailing away at the windmills of the evil world that he himself has created. Sheila Samples takes the Don Quixote analogy a step further with her brilliant must read essay ~ that is both compelling and scary.
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Apr 17, 09
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In or around 1605, European literature changed. No one realised it at the time, but when Don Quixote set off to save the world, a new kind of writing was born. The old forms of storytelling—the epic, the romance, the oral tale—would from now on be pitted against a boisterous young rival. Before long it would be universally acknowledged that a reader hoping to enjoy a good story must be in search of a novel.
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The curtain of Kundera's title is the veil of prejudice or pre-interpretation that occludes our view of reality. It is thick and stiff, 'woven of legends'; Cervantes tore through it when he released Don Quixote from romance into a world of nakedly comical prose, and this 'destructive act' is the creative boon of 'every novel worthy of the name'.
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Add Sticky NotePhilip Davis pleasures his brain with shifting Shakespearean syntax, measures the results on an electroencephalogram, and finds evidence that powerful writing can literally change the ways in which we think ...
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Nov 01, 08
This review by Carlos Fuentes, the same author who wrote the Introduction I've posted on Jump, discusses some of the same ideas that are in his Introduction but is a little more basic and easier to understand.
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Out of this meeting, Cervantes proposes a new way of writing and reading whose starting point is uncertainty. In a world of dogmatic certitude, he introduces a universe where nothing is certain.
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Apr 17, 09
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Don Quixote, famously, is the first major work of Western literature to take ordinary human life for its subject — specifically, a life that is replete with accidents, fiascoes, and indignities — and make it over into something luminous with meaning.
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Cervantes's fiction is a sort of birth announcement — droll and yet decisive — for realism itself. It betokens a new human attitude.
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As Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote is published, AS Byatt considers the influence of Cervantes' masterpiece on the development of the modern novel
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Is there anything the novel form designed by Cervantes can't do? The diligent reader of Don Quixote may end up answering with a flat no. And yet the author is determined to emphasize one restriction, although he probably thinks of it more as an ironic truth. The novel can't do reality. It can't ever not be a book. Whether we choose to admit it or not, the moment we open a work of fiction we have exited life and entered art. We're down a road and off on a quest, and neither the destination, nor necessarily the purposes, are at first obvious.
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Nov 05, 07
366 illustrations from the 1863 edition of Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Doré.
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