![]() ![]() The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes.’ Lionel Trilling observed: ‘It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.’ Vladmir Nabo kov wrote: ‘ Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes’s womb. From Milan Kundera: ‘Cervan tes is the founder of the Modern Era… The debt owed to Cervantes by literature is immense. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator. ‘And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?’ Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth century Spain. ![]() ‘ Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being,’ said novelist Milan Kundera. ![]()
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