"Don Quixote Around the Globe: Perceptions and Interpretations," edited by Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing

"Don Quixote Around the Globe: Perceptions and Interpretations," edited by Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing.  Don Quixote was the first novel ever to gain a virtually immediate international reception: within a year of its publication in 1605 it was being read in multiple countries on two continents. Shortly after that, translations, plays, and works of fiction adapting, or re-accentuating, the character were published and staged throughout Europe. Cervantes’s novel has thus generated perhaps the most interesting and varied history of reception, interpretation, and re-accentuation of any work of literature ever written. The character of Don Quixote is undoubtedly the most easily recognized literary character ever created. He is, as we have previously written, the greatest literary hero of all time. We offer here a dozen essays on the perception and interpretation of Don Quixote around the world by an international group of outstanding scholars. -From the introduction. Here are the contents: Introduction / Howard Mancing and Slav N. Gratchev  Part I. Don Quixote in the English-speaking World1. Don Quixote in Great Britain / Pedro Javier Pardo2. Don Quixote in the Early Years of the United States / Howard Mancing3. Don Quixote in the Cold War United States / William P. Childers Part II. Don Quixote in Europe4. Don Quixote in Germany: Carnival and Politics in Heinrich Heine’s and Tony Johannot’s Interpretations of Don Quixote / Rachel Schmidt5. Don Quixote in Bulgaria / Margarita Marinova Part III. Don Quixote in Latin America6. Don Quixote in Argentina / Victoria Ríos Castaño 7. Don Quixote in Brazil / Rogelio Miñana 8. Don Quixote in Cuba / Ricardo Castells Part IV. Don Quixote Around the World9. Don Quixote in Russia / Slav N. Gratchev10. Don Quixote in Bangladesh and India / Mashrur Shahid Hossain11. Don Quixote in Hebrew and Israel / Ruth Fine12. Don Quixote in Japan / Yumi Tanaka Afterword / Edward Friedman Series: Documentación cervantina «Tom Lathrop», #45 Printed in color. Paperback.ISBN 978-1-58871-354-4 (PB) $60