Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote appeared in 1605 and was so successful it spawned a fake sequel, and then a real one, by Cervantes, in 1615. And it’s been inspiring people ever since (google “quixotic” and start counting the hits, if you have the time!). In this class, we’ll sample just some of Quixote’s progeny — novels, films, and even retail outlets from around the world.
In addition to Don Quixote itself, reading will include:
- Paul Auster, City of Glass
- George Luis Borges, Ficciones
- R.K. Narayan, Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Films will include some of the following: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Man of La Mancha, The Saragossa Manuscript, Lost in La Mancha
Course Requirements:
Workload: regular short writing assignments, midterm & finals exams.
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