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...In both modes, his guiding principle was one he took from Henry James: “To be interesting in one beautiful sentence after another. To be interesting; not to change the world.” Jonathan Derbyshire...
...It was Cervantes in part two of Don Quixote, more than 400 years ago....
...Quichotte , his 14th novel, reimagines Miguel de Cervantes’ bumbling and chivalrous knight, Don Quixote, as a travelling salesman embarking on a quest across Trump’s America....
...Though the Don Quixote sections are done in 16th-century costume, director Lonny Price and designer James Noone place the rest of the action in an all-purpose contemporary fascist state (scowling guards...
...By coincidence, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Tang Xianzu all died in 1616....
...Alejandro Cervantes, senior analyst from Banorte-Ixe, says trade flows between the US and Mexico have increased due to the uncertainty of NAFTA renegotiations....
...Adapter James Fenton has the literary awareness to catch both the comedy and, especially in the second half, the poignancy of Cervantes’s tale....
...Photographs: Joan Marcus; Getty; Julieta Cervantes; Matthew Murphy; Eyevine...
...The young Wizard is played by James Franco, now so polymorphous a Hollywood star that I can barely keep up....
...In laconic prose, Saramago skilfully builds a journey of delicious digressions that set up resonances from Miguel de Cervantes’ picaresque chivalries to Czech humorist Jaroslav Hasek’s pigeon-fancying soldier...
...Edited extract from ‘How Fiction Works’ by James Wood (Vintage, RRP£8.99)...
...Moreover, two of the firm’s five founders – James Vernon and Jean-Philippe Blochet, the B and V in Brevan – left....
...I’m reading How Fiction Works by James Wood, and I’m rereading The Magic Mountain. What an amazing writer Thomas Mann was! When did you know you were going to be a writer?...
...The same could be argued of James Joyce’s layered wordplay, local detail and complicated rhythms....
...He is a writer who makes Henry James look like the soul of brevity....
...Cervantes and Thomas Hobbes both wrote their masterpieces late in life. The intuitive element of many discoveries reinforces the impression that only the young can be good at invention....
...Tom is James Dean and Trulove is Rock Hudson as in the film Giant. The fleshpot is Hollywood and the satire is directed at vacuous TV culture....
...Her mother, Lucilla Quero-Bejar, was the daughter of a Spanish doctor and numbered among her aristocratic forbears the patron of Cervantes....
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