Pablo PICASSO’s 1955 India ink sketch
of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
was featured on the August 18–24
issue of the French weekly journal
Les Lettres Françaises in celebration
of the 350th anniversary of the first
part of Cervantes’s DON QUIXOTE.
(Cover art by Gustave Doré)
Miguel CERVANTES, perhaps the only
writer ever captured by pirates, wrote the epic novel
THE INGENIOUS NOBLEMAN
MISTER QUIXOTE
OF LA MANCHA
MISTER QUIXOTE
OF LA MANCHA
(EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA).
Part I published 1605 - Part II 1615, it
is considered the most influential work
of literature in the entire Spanish canon
and has spawned the adjective “quixotic”
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British artist Sir John EVERETT Millais painted OPHELIA singing before she drowns. 1851- 1852.
Oil on canvas.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s
play HAMLET.
William SHAKESPEARE’s
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK,
written between 1599 and 1602 and
derived from the legend of Amleth.
It is his longest and most
influential work.
Who among us has not asked
at some point in our life
“Etre ou ne pas être?”
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Salvador DALI’s
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
was based on Lewis Carroll’s
ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
One of twelve heliogravures,
one for each chapter of the
book published by
Maecenas Press -
Random House,
New York in 1969.
In 1862 Charles Dodgson, a shy Oxford
mathematician with a stammer,
created a story about a little girl
tumbling down a rabbit hole
under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Insipid Alice is a bit of a bore but
who doesn’t love the Mad Hatter,
the Queen of Hearts,
the Cheshire cat?
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