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Don Quixote

In the history of the modern novel, the role of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is seminal. This program seeks to understand the monumental satire’s central underlying themes—individualism, idealism, and imagination, on the one hand, and deception, manipulation, and disillusionment, on the other—from the viewpoint of Cervantes’ upbringing and life experiences. Dramatizations deftly capture the story’s transit from comedy to tragedy. Interviews with Carlos Fuentes; Cervantes scholars Diana de Armas Wilson and Henry Sullivan; and John Allen, of The Cervantes Society of America, are featured. A Discovery University Production. (48 minutes)

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Item#: BVL32880
Copyright date: ©1997
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-8573-6


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