Lectures On Don Quixote: Nabokov's Literary Criticism of the Spanish Classic Challenging Satire to Reveal a Catalog of Cruelty

A fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with a Preface by Fredson Bowers; photographs.