The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World Tapa dura - 2016

Paperback. Good.

London: Bloomsbury. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (2016). Hardcover. 1408843846 . No signatures. 5mm chips to top corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First UK edition. xxiii, [1], 239, [2], [7 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with metallic red-bronze lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 150mm. Illustrated. "‘In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain’s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing.’ In Cervantes’ time, ‘fiction’ was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, or ‘poetry’ which might be invented, but had to conform to strict principles. Don Quixote tells the story of a poor nobleman,… Leer más