Cervantes in Algiers

Cervantes in Algiers
Title Cervantes in Algiers PDF eBook
Author María Antonia Garcés
Publisher Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages 374
Release 2002
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9780826514707

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Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Algiers. The five years he spent in the Algerian bagnios or prison-houses (1575-1580) made an indelible impression on his works. From the first plays and narratives written after his release to his posthumous novel, the story of Cervantes's traumatic experience continuously speaks through his writings. Cervantes in Algiers offers a comprehensive view of his life as a slave and, particularly, of the lingering effects this traumatic experience had on his literary production. No work has documented in such vivid and illuminating detail the socio-political world of sixteenth-century Algiers, Cervantes's life in the prison-house, his four escape attempts, and the conditions of his final ransom. Garces's portrait of a sophisticated multi-ethnic culture in Algiers, moreover, is likely to open up new discussions about early modern encounters between Christians and Muslims. By bringing together evidence from many different sources, historical and literary, Garces reconstructs the relations between Christians, Muslims, and renegades in a number of Cervantes's writings. The idea that survivors of captivity need to repeat their story in order to survive (an insight invoked from Coleridge to Primo Levi to Dori Laub) explains not only Cervantes's storytelling but also the book that theorizes it so compellingly. As a former captive herself (a hostage of Colombian guerrillas), the author reads and listens to Cervantes with another ear.

The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana

The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana
Title The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana PDF eBook
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages 207
Release 2012-08-02
Genre Drama
ISBN 0812222156

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The first English translation of two captivity plays by Cervantes, set in Algiers and Constantinople. Featuring a lively cast of corsairs, captives, and renegades, they offer important insights into early modern Spain's conception of the world of Islam.

The Voyage to Parnassus

The Voyage to Parnassus
Title The Voyage to Parnassus PDF eBook
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher
Total Pages 304
Release 1870
Genre Spanish literature
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No Ordinary Man

No Ordinary Man
Title No Ordinary Man PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Peter Owen Publishers
Total Pages 368
Release 2014-04-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 072061628X

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The first biography to be aimed at the general reader as much as at students and historians, No Ordinary Man is a fascinating study of the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the writer known as the "Spanish Shakespeare" and author of the timeless classic Don Quixote. A renaissance man in all senses of the term, Cervantes was, in his time, an adventurer, spy, soldier, hostage, and creator of the first European novel. This biography is based on the latest original research and incorporates previously unpublished material on Cervantes’ long period of captivity in Algiers, his involvement in piracy in the Mediterranean, espionage, and the Spanish Armada, and his work for the Spanish government. Containing much information never before available in English, No Ordinary Man makes an important contribution to the understanding of this unique literary and historical figure.

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
Title Don Quixote PDF eBook
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher
Total Pages 274
Release 1901
Genre
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The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes: A Novel

The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes: A Novel
Title The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes: A Novel PDF eBook
Author Stephen Marlowe
Publisher Skyhorse
Total Pages 681
Release 2012-02-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1628720018

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This is the story of my death and life, in which fiction and that lesser truth, history, from time to time form a seamless whole. Speaking is the hero of Stephen Marlowe's brilliant new novel. He is Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: son of a barber-surgeon (always on the run from the bill collector), grandson of a converso(a Jew who chose Christianity over the flames of the Spanish Inquisition), adorer of his own sister (who may not have been his sister after all), brother of one of the most famous spies in recorded history (though the records have mysteriously vanished), prisoner in an Algerian dungeon (following capture by Barbary Pirates), friend to a Faustian eunuch astrologer named Cide Hamete Benegeli (whose missing private parts are miraculously regenerating), and, of course, creator of the most celebrated of all fictional historical novels--The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Cervantes Street

Cervantes Street
Title Cervantes Street PDF eBook
Author Jaime Manrique
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781617751073

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A mesmerizing fictional biography of Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote) that Junot Diaz calls a masterpiece.