The leather-bound book "Don Quixote" by Cervantes Miguel de Saavedra, in 2 volumes

Four centuries ago, a prisoner in a Seville prison had a strange vision. Through the prison bars, he saw two lonely travelers: one was very thin, on a bony nag, the other was fat, on a gray donkey. The prisoner began to closely observe their amazing adventures and record everything with his surviving hand... The most incomprehensible thing in this story remains the fact that the comic couple that appeared in the mind of the prisoner of Seville became close to everyone living on our planet. It's like they actually live with us, somewhere very, very close.

Cervantes' novel Don Quixote remains one of the most widely published books in the world, second only to the Bible in terms of the number of languages it has been translated into. In the late 1960s, the artist Savva Brodsky took up, as he himself put it, the thousandth variation of illustrating the novel and again began to wash the great book in his heart like gold-bearing sand (the artist began to draw the heroes of Cervantes as a schoolboy). What is important and extremely valuable is that Brodsky did not divide the world, as is customary, into Don Quixotes and Sancho Panza. According to his pictorial version, one Don Quixote or one Sancho cannot exist, just as only one side of the coin cannot exist. The exalted knight is closely followed by a sharp-witted squire: one embodies the idea, the other its practical use. But in Brodsky's illustrations, there is also a third character - a cracked earth stretching into a merciless distance. It was in this human desert that Don Quixote's bright faith in the truth, which requires service and sacrifice, was born...

The book uses images of works from the collections of the Serpukhov Historical and Art Museum, a state cultural institution in the Moscow Region. Additional materials: Svetlana Piskunova - Comments, Svetlana Piskunova - Cervantes and his novel, Savva Brodsky - If there were no Quixotes, humanity would never have emerged from the caves.

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