Spain and the Americas.A series of guest lectures organised by the Spanish Section of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages.Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, by Pablo Picasso. «Don Quixote has arguably been the most successful commercial product ever marketed, including Marilyn Monroe, Jesus Christ, Danone yoghourt, and Muhammad Ali. It is a book from which novelists from the mid-C18 to postmodernism keep drawing inspiration. And yet it is now a very old book, product of a culture quite alien in its world view from our own. How is this possible? How is this compatible with its status as a monument of world literature? What has worked uniquely for Don Quixote, and failed to work for Hamlet, the Odyssey, or The Divine Comedy?».Tuesday 22 November 2005The Boardroom, First Floor309 Regent StreetLondon W1B 2UW18'00 hrs.Prof. Anthony Close, now retired, was formerly Reader in Spanish at the University of Cambridge. He is author of (amongst other things) three books on Cervantes and Don Quixote and is President of the Asociación Internacional del Siglo de Oro.Lectures in this series are free and open to all students, staff and guests of the university. Non-members of the University of Westminster please contact:Dr Celia Szusterman E-mail: c.szusterman@wmin.ac.uk Phone: +44 20 7911 5800 Ext. 2031
