Don Quixote: 400 Years on the Road

THE FOLLOWING CERVANTES SCHOLARS are interviewed in this program: A. J. Close, Daniel Eisenberg, Edward Friedman, Barry Ife, James Iffland, Carroll Johnson, Eduardo Urbina, and Diana de Armas Wilson. The 3-part program (3 hours) can be obtained on CD or cassette for $34 (Canadian), taxes and shipping included; ordering details at . To order using a credit card, call (416) 205-7367, of you can send a check or credit card information to: Ideas Transcripts, (18) Box 500, Station A, Toronto, MSW 1E6, Canada. The program was transcribed by Christina H. Lee and the transcription edited by Daniel Eisenberg (who wrote the footnotes). (19) Some words of James Iffland had been mistakenly attributed to Edward Friedman; this has been corrected here and on the audio version currently for sale. All participants have had the opportunity to review the transcriptions and make corrections. The variations between Quixote and Quijote, and between Cervantes' and Cervantes's, reflect the pronunciation of the speakers. PART I PAUL KENNEDY: I'm Paul Kennedy and this is Ideas. PAUL KENNEDY: In a poll released last year, the novel Don Quijote was voted the best and most central work of literature of all time. There were a hundred writers polled. The survey was conducted by the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The Institute was choosing 100 titles to make up a library of world literature. They weren't necessarily seeking a number one book, but Don Quijote came very much in the lead. It earned fifty percent more votes than any other title. Don Quijote came out in two parts, Part I in 1605, and Part II ten years later. It's now published as one enormous book. And most of us haven't read it. Of we've read it a bit of it in school. Of we've seen Man of La Mancha. Of we've seen a picture of the hero and the windmills. So many of us will have asked, when we saw the results of that poll in newspapers last year: Why Don Quijote? The question is Why this book.? Tonight on Ideas, the beginnings of an answer: points of view from some of the world's leading experts on the book, as the three-part series gets on the way. Don Quijote: 400 Years on the Road is produced and presented by Barbara Nichol. Part I, Chapter 1. In a village of La Mancha (I don't want to bother you with its name) there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen who keep a lance in a lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound. Three quarters of his income went into his pot of stew (which contained a good deal more cow than sheep), the cold salt beef he ate most nights, Friday's beans and lentils and Saturday's leftover scraps, and sometimes a slender young pigeon for Sunday. All the rest ended up in a heavy broadcloth coat, velvet breeches he wore on feast days (with velvet slippers to match), and the fine quality homespun he wore, with great dignity, during the week. He lived with a housekeeper who was over forty. and a niece who hadn't reached twenty, plus a boy for the fields and the market, who spent as much time saddling the old horse as wielding the pruning knife. Our gentleman was getting close to fifty, but strong, lean, his face sharp, always up at dawn, and a devoted hunter. It's said his family name was Quijada, or maybe Quesada: there's some disagreement among the writers who've discussed the matter. But more than likely his name was really Quejana. Not that this makes much difference in our story; it's just important to tell things as faithfully as you can. (I, 1; 13) (21) BARBARA NICHOL: And so Miguel de Cervantes starts out, telling his tale, he says, as faithfully as he can. But the story--he tells us it's a true story--is gathered up from more than one account, most of it collected by an historian, a Moor, Cide Hamete Benengeli. …

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