Don Quixote Lessons

When Vladimir Nabokov came to Harvard University as a visiting professor in 1951, he gave six lectures on Don Quixote. In these lectures, which he later recalled many years later as "I recall with pleasure the cruel and vulgar, shabby book Don Quixote, in the Memorial Hall building, while my conservative colleagues looked on with horror and shame," Nabokov completely rejects the established notion that the novel is a sweet, satirical farce. . On the contrary, he says that Don Quixote is "one of the most cruel and inhumane books." While reconstructing this shattered book as an "acyclopedia of oppression", he also examines Cervantes' life, 16th century Spain, the echoes of the novel in literature, and every element that the author used from past literature in his cataloging mission. Don Quixote Lessons is a guide that those who will read this classic should keep at their bedside, and for Nabokov lovers, it is an epic encounter between a master critic and a literary giant.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 294

Year of Print: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2016

Language Turkish