Don Quixote

[Michel Ryckx]

There's a wonderful Borges story about Pierre Menard, re-writing Don 
Quixote. 15-odd pages.

Kind regards,

Michel.

joeallonby wrote:

>There's an Anthony Burgess short story that puts Shakespeare and his players
>in Spain where they are impressed by a pageant display that depicts Don Q
>and Sancho Panza before a bullfight as an expression of national pride in
>Cervantes and his new creation the novel. Will uses this as inspiration for
>Falstaff and Prince Hal and goes on to produce his greatest series of plays.
>To be a total digressing geek for a moment, has anyone noticed that
>Aragorn's speech before the gates of Mordor is straight out of Henry V?
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>Oh, yeah. What was I talking about.
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>I don't remember the name of the Burgess story but it was in the same
>compilation as his Attila novella.
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>Where was the earthquake and is everybody OK?
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>Joe
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>on 12/20/03 11:36 AM, bekah at bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
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>>Um. Yes and no. Shakespeare and Cervantes did
>>technically die on the same date but, the date is
>>noted in the Gregorian calendar for Cervantes and
>>the Julian calendar for Shakespeare.
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>>So what do we have?  Per the Gregorian calendar
>>Shakespeare died on May 3, 1616.
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>><http://www.renaissance-faire.com/Renfaires/Entertainment/William-Shakespeare-
>>death.htm>
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>>Bekah
>>holy shit, we just had an earthquake! I'll let you know
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>>At 7:07 AM +0100 12/20/03, Otto wrote:
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>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Vincent BRACQ" <vincent.bracq at wanadoo.fr>
>>>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:42 PM
>>>Subject: Re: Don Quixote
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>>>>Le vendredi, 19 déc 2003, à 19:22 Europe/Paris, Ghetta Life a écrit :
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>>>>>http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1105510,00.html
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>>>>>Don Quixote - the first modern novel - remains the finest. As a new
>>>>>translation of the Spanish classic is published, Harold Bloom argues
>>>>>that only Shakespeare comes close to Cervantes' genius
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>>>>Do you know that Cervantes and Shakespeare die the same day ?
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>>>The article puts it even stronger:
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>>>"Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died almost simultaneously (...)."
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>>>Must've been a bad day for literature!
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>>>There's an e-text of the 1885 translation by John Ormsby.
>>>http://www.donquixote.com/english.html
>>>
>>>Otto
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