Reading: Timothy West
Moderator: Harry Chapman
We start the celebrations of the fourth centenary of Cervantes’s death with the launch of this volume, published by Book Now, which brings together for the first time Robin Chapman’s three novels inspired by Don Quixote. The Duchess’s Diary tells how Maria Isabel de Echauri, Duchess of Caparroso, comes to believe that she has been misportrayed in fiction, thus approaching one of Cervantes’s favorite themes, the dialogue between reality and fiction.
Sancho’s Golden Age relates how Sancho Panza, after Don Quixote’s death, tries to create an ideal pastoral existence such as they had envisaged on their final journey home.
Pasamonte’s life extends a rogue’s auto biography already in progress but left in pawn when Don Quixote releases him from a chain-gang.
Robin Chapman is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He is married to the painter Jill Booty. His most recent book, Shakespeare’s Don Quixote, Book Now 2011, is a novel in dialogue which reconstructs Cardenio, a lost Shakespearean play based on Don Quixote. He imagines it performed in a fringe theatre in front of the talkative spirits of Cervantes and Shakespeare. They find they have much in common. He is at present working on That Red Young Man, a literary portrait of J.B. Trend, the first Professor of Spanish at Cambridge University and friend of Lorca and Falla.
In English – Free entry
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