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Bezig met laden... De waanideeën van Don Quichotte een reis door het Spanje van Cervantesdoor Miranda France
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) Ma_Washigeri | Jan 23, 2021 |  ) Ma_Washigeri | May 27, 2018 | So Miranda France's story of Spain and Don Quixote has the essential elements. She unfolds the story of Don Quixote as she unfolds the story of post Franco Spain, and that of her uncertain connection with a young man as committed to revolution as he is to avoiding a committed relationship. The scholarship on Don Quixote and Cervantes is there, and told with enough enthusiasm as to tempt the reader to take up - or take up again - that golden brick of a book (though I'd still stick with the translator Cohen's advice to exercise 'judicious skipping'). As for Spain itself, this is as good an account as you'll find anywhere of the the explosion of political - and sexual - expression that followed the decades of Franco's total repression of what we'd called liberal society, and to some extent of the massive hangover that followed. And as for the author's journey of the heart? Well there's a lot left unsaid, but there's enough left in the text to allow the reader to suppose that this was not the end, but the beginning of something much, much better. Highly recommended, if you have an interest in Don Quixote or Spain, or have some sympathy with a tale of being in love in foreign parts with a very difficult object of affection. (  ) nandadevi | Jul 6, 2015 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer. When in 1987 Miranda France spent a year living in Madrid, the post-dictatorship ebullience was at its height. Pornography and soft drugs were legalised alongside more basic freedoms, such as divorce, party-affiliation and kissing in the street. In 1998 she returned to make a journey through the great cities and towns of central Spain - Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, Salamanca and others. With the new prosperity, much has changed. But much has also endured, as she learns from the people she meets, who include a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers and a Castilian separatist. She also discovers that Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE' published in 1605 and the most translated book after the Bible - is a work of genius which still helps to explain the Spanish character: today's Spaniards still suffer from Don Quixote's delusions, and are as stubborn, inflexible and unrealistic as they have always been. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)946.2History and Geography Europe Spain and Iberian Peninsula Leon; EstramaduraLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.7)
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