Thursday, May 21, 2015

The following is a short list of writers and their works that were influenced by Cervantes and his novel Don Quixote. For the most part this list is from the book Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote (1990) by Anthony Close. The rest are my selections based on Dr. Closes criterion. Those titles that are not novels are noted. Any suggestions?

Samuel Butler - Hudibras, 1684 (poem)
Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews, 1742
Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy, 1759
Stendhal - The Red and the Black, 1830
Charles Dickens- Pickwick Papers, 1837
Stendhal- The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839
Edgar Allen Poe - Eldorado, 1849 (poem)
Herman Melville - Moby Dick, 1853
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary, 1856
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot, 1868
George Elliot - Middlemarch, 1871
Leopoldo Alas - The Regentess, 1884
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885
Benito Perez Galdos- Doña Perfecta, 1876
Benito Perez Galdos -Fortunata and Jacinta, 1886–87 
Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897 (play)
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness, 1899
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim, 1900
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks, 1901
Henry James - The Ambassadors, 1903
Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk, 1921
James Joyce - Ulysses, 1922
Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, 1925
Andre Gide - The Counterfeiters, 1926
Franz Kafka - The Castle, 1926
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms, 1929
Miguel de Unamuno - St Manuel Bueno, Martyr, 1931
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones, 1944
Jorge Luis Borges - El Aleph, 1949
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita, 1958
Luis Martin Santos - Time of Silence, 1961
Ken Kesey - One few Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962
Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire, 1962
Carlos Fuentes - Change of Skin, 1967
Graham Greene - Monsignor Quixote, 1982
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985

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