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The New Adventures of Don Quixote
Tariq Ali
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Description for The New Adventures of Don Quixote
Hardback. A play, that can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. It features Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, who are mounted on their beasts of burden, Rocinante and the Mule, and Ali has them ride into the twenty-first century, where they are confronted by old, familiar vices: war, greed, disappointed love, and economic crisis. Num Pages: 200 pages, 30 colour plates. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
MULE. Who created us? ROCINANTE. What kind of dumb question is that? The great master Cervantes, of course. Who else? MULE. God. ROCINANTE. Listen you obstinate fool. We're animals. We don't have to believe in God. That's meant for the superior species. MULE. Why did Cervantes create us? ROCINANTE. Because he was a genius. I think he made me a bit like himself. But those who ride us were not so lucky. Tariq Ali's latest play, The New Adventures of Don Quixote, can be read as homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht as much as a playful ... Read more
MULE. Who created us? ROCINANTE. What kind of dumb question is that? The great master Cervantes, of course. Who else? MULE. God. ROCINANTE. Listen you obstinate fool. We're animals. We don't have to believe in God. That's meant for the superior species. MULE. Why did Cervantes create us? ROCINANTE. Because he was a genius. I think he made me a bit like himself. But those who ride us were not so lucky. Tariq Ali's latest play, The New Adventures of Don Quixote, can be read as homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht as much as a playful ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857422095
SKU
V9780857422095
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About Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books, including Fear of Mirrors, also published by Seagull Books.
Reviews for The New Adventures of Don Quixote
"Ali broadens our horizons, geographically, historically, intellectually, and politically. His mode of history-telling is lyrical and engaging, humane, and passionate." (Nation)"