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His words still shape our consciousness, even if we fail to read him. This is not due to some hackneyed idealism (“tilting at windmills”), but rather to his pervasive impact on the genre that taught us to think like moderns: the novel. He pioneered the representation of individual subjectivity and aspiration, which today undergirds the construction of agency in any narrative, whether in novels, films, television, or the daily self-fashioning by millions of users of social media.
The Restless Books team hopes to raise $20,000 to publish a 400th anniversary edition of Miguel de Cervantes’beloved novel, Don Quixote. This book, slated for release in October 2015, will be the first title from the “Restless Classics” program. We’ve embedded a video about the project above.
Here’s more from the Kickstarter page: “Our mission is to bring great books from overlooked corners of the world to American readers who are not content to limit their imaginations to our borders. We’ll be publishing English-language editions of fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, travel writing, science fiction and more from everywhere from Cuba to China, Pakistan to Chile, Mexico to Uzbekistan. With Restless Classics, we want to bring older books that still speak to our time and place—and especially to our ‘restlessness’—back into the conversation.”
They believe they have found the bones of Cervantes, his wife and others recorded as buried with him in Madrid’s Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians. Separating and identifying his badly damaged bones from the other fragments will be difficult, researchers say.
To celebrate this discovery, here is a link to a free eBook version of Don Quixote.
Despite fierce winds, piles of snow, and the biting cold, winter is the best season for some cozy reading (and drinking hot chocolate). If you’re inclined to stay in today, check out these favorite classics of ours that will take you on wild adventures, all while huddled underneath your sheets.
What starts out as a bet to settle an argument between club members transforms into a grand adventure. It is fascinating, fast-paced, and enchanting, and brings you around the world in just eighty days!
In following the journey of Alonso Quixano, we find ourselves both amused and sad at the protagonist’s delusion of the world around him. The satirical elements of Don Quixote have permeated our modern literary culture and vocabulary: the term “quixotic” describes one who is too idealistic.
Jealousy, revenge, romance, hope, and justice flavor this jam-packed classic. After being thrown into jail for accused treason, Edmond Dantès only escapes after his fellow prisoner discloses the location of a vast wealth on the island of Monte Cristo. Once Dantès retrieves the hidden treasure, he poses as the Count of Monte Cristo and thus begins his plot of revenge against the men who put him away.
From the land of people no larger than six inches tall, to the land of horse people called Houyhnhnms, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself in lands like no other. His travels are sparked by (what we assume to be) a mid-life crisis, when his business fails. In a number of expeditions, Gulliver takes to the seas in a wanderlust sort of way, visiting his wife and children in between travels.
In this six-part adventure, Jim Hawkins narrates his journey from the death of a patron at his family’s inn — leaving behind a map and other clues pointing to buried treasure — to encounters with pirates on the high seas. Treasure Island captivates with its simple, yet lively prose. It’s a coming-of-age story for anyone at any age.
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—the three musketeers—join up with a young noble named d’Artagnan, who seems to find trouble for himself. In this riveting tale full of assassination attempts, a scandalous love affair, and revenge, there is also fierce loyalty, camaraderie, and energy among the four musketeers.
Headline image credit: Irving Johnson. Original photo courtesy of Glenn Batuyong, Port of San Diego. CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
Sculpture in Toledo of Miguel de Cervantes by Oscar Alvariño.
Photographer: Francisco Javier Martín
La Bloga recently reviewed Tom Miller's Revenge of the Saguaro: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest. This is Tom's first guest spot at La Bloga.
Tom Miller
All together now: “En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.” If you don’t recognize those forty-one words, go to the back of the class. The rest of you can identify the opening line from Don Quixote de la Mancha, the world’s best-loved and most translated novel. Since its initial publication in the early seventeenth century (in two parts; 1605 and 1615) the Quixote has been considered the first modern novel and its author Miguel de Cervantes has come to symbolized the Spanish language. If you grew up in a Spanish-speaking country you likely can recite those forty-one words in your sleep.
Ground zero for Cervantes, of course, is Madrid, where he lived off and on, and died April 23, 1616. William Shakespeare, who symbolized another language, died April 23, 1616 as well. In those days Spain followed one calendar while England used another, so although Miguel de Cervantes’ and William Shakespeare died the same date, they did not die the same day. (Or, as I explain to friends in Tucson, one followed the calendar from El Charro, and the other, from Mi Nidito.)
April 23 has evolved into El Día del Libro in Spain, a very literary day on which the King awards the annual Cervantes Prize for outstanding work in the Spanish language, and kiosks and big displays of books line the streets of Madrid, Barcelona, and elsewhere. (In Barcelona, it’s Sant Jordi day, which, in addition to celebrating books, includes giving a rose to a lover or someone you’d like to be a lover. Books and lovers; I ask you, could there be a more fertile combination?)
Madrid’s main activity takes place in the Circulo be Bellas Artes (CBA), a huge building on a broad mid-town boulevard with galleries, rooms for workshops, theater, meetings, and exhibits, as well as a nicely stocked bookstore named for the poet Antonio Machado. And it’s here every year that the Lectura Continuada, the marathon reading, of the thousand-page Don Quixote takes place. The first reader, always, is the winner of the Cervantes Prize, in this case, the Mexican poet José Emilio Pacheco. He’s followed by politicos, actors, high-ranking cultural bureaucrats, and the like. Each reader gets a paragraph or two at most. The CBA has a high-tech approach to the Quixote, and arranged for teleconferencing from readers in cities throughout Africa, the Americas, and Asia. And, it was web-streamed,
4 Comments on Guest Columnists: Tom Miller, Reading Cervantes Aloud in Spain. Roberto Cantú, Octavio Paz. On-Line Poetry Festival: Responses to Arizona., last added: 5/7/2010
Thank you Tom, Roberto, all the poets especially, for your thoughtful, engaging poems. Alma Luz Villanueva, Antoinette Nora Claypoole, Meg Withers, Manuel Lozano, Carmen Catalayud, Francisco Alarcón. Out of the uncivilized discord of Arizona's ill-will come these moments of wonder and cultura.
Beautiful entries. My birthday is at the end of April. I think I will have to visit Spain one of these days for the festivals of April 23. Love and books!
Alma's Breathing While Brown gave me chills! Thank you for that, Alma.
What I like the most about Tom Miller is his eclectic songs and performance elicit both laughter and shock to people. I think he is one of the great artist and writer.
Thank you Tom, Roberto, all the poets especially, for your thoughtful, engaging poems. Alma Luz Villanueva, Antoinette Nora Claypoole, Meg Withers, Manuel Lozano, Carmen Catalayud, Francisco Alarcón. Out of the uncivilized discord of Arizona's ill-will come these moments of wonder and cultura.
Beautiful entries. My birthday is at the end of April. I think I will have to visit Spain one of these days for the festivals of April 23. Love and books!
Alma's Breathing While Brown gave me chills! Thank you for that, Alma.
My apologies to Carmen Calatayud for misspelling her last name so execrably. Calatayud, is the proper spelling of the poet's name.
What I like the most about Tom Miller is his eclectic songs and performance elicit both laughter and shock to people. I think he is one of the great artist and writer.