cervantes

I also like Fransisco de Quevedo and Miguel de Cervantes (yes, Cervantes was also a poet).

A deeply thoughtful literary great, to rank among the likes of Dickens, Cervantes and Dostoyevsky in my mind.

I knew that Shakespeare and Cervantes had died within 10 days of each other but was surprised to find out that Cervantes lived to 68 while Shakespeare was only 52.

When the war was over, Cervantes was left to find his own way home - the king didn't provide any return transportation.

Tilting at deeply entrenched windmills is a generally a fools errand (as Cervantes said).

Being poor as a rat when he dies, Cervantes never knows that he'll became the most famous writer in the history of Spain.

Dante does it, Cervantes does it, Vonnegut does it, Borges does it.

Or perhaps referencing equal parts Ayn Rand, Hemmingway, Poe and Cervantes might be more of an attempt to bring to mind famous authors rather than objectivism?

As a curiosity Cervantes and Shakespeare died on the same date but different days, Gregorian and Julian calendars were used in Spain and England at that time.

As Cervantes itself was a limp from a war which was something reminiscing old romantic but bullshit times, with Don Quixote you have the clear message that the warrior/knights were looked down against the traveler making wealth from overseas.

Yes, native Spanish speaker which is supposedly one of the top 3 most widely spoken languages on Earth and I must confess that most of the time I don't see the point in reading any content in Spanish anymore (except for some literature - in other words, yes, you probably want to read Shakespeare in English and Cervantes in Spanish, etc) Foreign news, science, technology in Spanish?

Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, the author of "Don Quijote", was drafted by the king of Spain to fight in a war.

Or in the words of Cervantes, "translation from one language into another [...] is like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side out."

"Experience is the best master, but it always comes a little too late." - Cervantes After loads of time hearing about proper CSS, RoR, etc.

Also recommended Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" about a writer who rewrites Don Quixote word-for-word, though of course imbuing with a radically new meaning given the different historical context: "It is a revelation to compare Menard’s Don Quixote with Cervantes’.

The recommendations were Alighieri (Dante), Cervantes, some more 17th century authors and Tom Holt, who is K.

This is the grave of Cervantes, the writer of the novel.

Another example: Don Quixote (1605 AD) by Cervantes.