![]() ![]() ![]() This is why a historian, a geophysicist, and a team of forensic scientists in Madrid have set out on an obsessive quest to dig up Cervantes’ remains. “We might have not written Don Quixote,” Stavans said, referring to Latin American writers, “but we can supersede Cervantes in originality by doing something with the novel that he didn’t see … we can do something great with what we inherited.” “We might have not written Don Quixote, but we can supersede Cervantes in originality by doing something with the novel that he didn’t see … we can do something great with what we inherited,” Ilan Stavans, author.Īnd as each new generation rediscovers and reinterprets Cervantes, Don Quixote becomes a mirror, a snapshot of the way values and ideas are passed down. Stavans explained in a phone interview with NBC News that readers treat the novel like an “open book with blank pages” because depending on where they are in life, they can see themselves reflected in different ways. ![]() Don Quixote is such an appealing character because he acts on that dream.”ĭifferent generations have claimed Cervantes and his most popular characters - Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza - as symbols for their politics, beliefs and identity. “We all dream of a different life,” writes Amherst College professor and writer Ilan Stavans in his new book “Quixote: The Book and the World,” which will be published in September. ![]()
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