Don Quixote. 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish...
Don Quixote. 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was featured on the August 18–24 issue of the French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first part of Cervantes’s Don Quixote. Made on August 10, 1955, the drawing Don Quixote was in a very different style than Picasso’s earlier Blue, Rose, and Cubist periods. Via Wikipedia.
4th centenary of death of Miguel de Cervantes
If you are in Madrid (or plan to be during the next weeks) check out this site (or this other one) where you can find the main activities within the program of commemoration of the anniversary.
Also there are commemorations in the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes around the world, for instance in New York, Chicago, Albuquerque, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amman, Moscu or Tokyo.
If you can’t be there, always is a good time to grab his works and… devour them, definitely worth it, own a unique and perfect mixture of adventures, humor, history, philosophy and a brilliant analysis of human nature.
Of course, you should start from Don Quixote, but don’t forget give a try at least to his Novelas ejemplares (“Exemplary Novels”). Next some links to Cervantes’ world:
+ Don Quixote in Amazon (US, UK, ES)
+ Exemplary Stories in Amazon (US, UK, ES)
+ Books by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (sorted by popularity) - Project Gutenberg
+ Don Quixote. The Literature Network. On line edition, translated to English in 1885 by John Ormsby (1829-1895), with beautiful illustrations by Gustave Doré.
+ Audiobooks, LibriVox
Courses
+ Open Yale Courses | Cervantes’ Don Quixote
+ Discover Don Quijote, Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Other readings
+ Miguel De Cervantes Biography, notablebiographies.com
+ Historical Context for Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Columbia University
+ Don Quixote (1605) - Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616), University of Idaho.
+ One Master, Many Cervantes - Don Quixote in translation, Humanities, neh.gov | National Endowment for the Humanities
+ Technique and Style in Don Quixote, CliffsNotes
+ List of works influenced by Don Quixote (Wikipedia)
+ Don Quixote Study Guide, LitCharts
+ Don Quixote - Engravings by Gustave Doré (Wikimedia Commons, High-Res)
+ Don Quixote at Public Domain Super Heroes - Wikia
[Gustave Doré’s first (of about 370) illustrations for Don Quixote - Wikimedia Commons]