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- Title: Don Quijote Turned 400. Did Anybody Notice?
- Author : Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of_x00D_America
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 88 KB
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WELL, THE SHORT ANSWER to my rhetorical question, did anybody notice the quadricentennial of the publication of Don Quijote, Part I, in 1605, is something like Oh boy, did they ever!" (1) I have filled a total of twenty-five, count 'em, twenty-five 3 1/2 inch floppy disks with announcements and descriptions of quixotic celebrations all around the world that began in 2004 and are sputtering to an end in this room tonight. Many of these celebrations were pro-forma affairs in which small towns allover Spain paid homage to what everybody knew was a national treasure but nobody was quite sure why.