title: Quixote: The Novel and the World
author:  Ilan Stavans 
description: This enjoyable book, a fast and fun read, informs us deeply about [Don Quixote]. As such, it is a model work of criticism. It sends us back to the original work, eager and informed and moved to reread it or read it for the first time.<br /> - <strong>Tim Redman, <em>Dallas Morning News</em></strong><br /><br />A combination of celebration, meditation, and quest, Stavanss book is bound to please el Quijotes devoted readers and win new fans.<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br /><br />Bold, imaginative, and deeply learned. Stavans, one of our most gifted scholars of Hispanic literature, has arrived to narrate the tale of how modernity was birthed amid the whirl of windmills and all those chasing them.<br /> - <strong>Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University</strong><br /><br />Stavans brings infectious enthusiasm and penetrating scholarship to this lively investigation of a grand novel and its readers.<br /> - <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong><br /><br />If, like me, you live with the guilt of not having read <em>Don Quixote of La Mancha</em>, this delightful romp will inspire you to act. It is a splendid work of historiography that looks at the knights influence on just about everythingincluding the Muppets. Ilan Stavans delivers another keen-eyed, delightful tour de force.<br /> - <strong>Barry Moser, illustrator of <em>The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible</em></strong><br /><br />Ilan Stavans, like Cervantes, tells stories of errantry: of his own travels with and through the book, of El Quijotes journey across and around the world, of the characters voyages through the imaginations of creators and re-creators. The result is as engaging, funny, readable, and illuminating as the book its about: an idiosyncratic yet amazingly comprehensive companion, which all readers of El Quijote will want.<br /> - <strong>Felipe Fernndez-Armesto, author of <em>Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years</em> and <em>1492: The Year the World Began</em></strong><br /><br />A masterly history of Don Quixote that approaches the book from multiple angles: literary, historical, cultural, linguistic, and personal. Ilan Stavans has given us a compelling, readable, and often humorous portrait of the book and its author.<br /> - <strong>Laila Lalami, author of <em>The Moors Account</em></strong><br /><br />In this sparkling narrative, Ilan Stavans takes us on an exploration of a novel he reveres. A fascinating, deeply enjoyable read.<br /> - <strong>Jon Lee Anderson, author of <em>Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life</em></strong><br /><br />The impression is of abundant intelligence poured into a vessel whose aim is not tidy scholarship but joyous insight. Book lovers will relish this expansive and generous tome.<br /> - <strong><em>Library Journal</em></strong><br /><br />Expertly connects Cervantes satire of then-popular novels of chivalry to the political climate of the time. The combination of cultural analysis, textual examination, and enthusiastic commentary makes for an excellent primer to celebrate this momentous anniversary [of <em>Quixotes</em> publication.]<br /> - <strong><em>Booklist</em></strong>
zlib_text: Quixote in Ramadi
  
  An Indigenous Account of Imperialism
  
  M.B. Wilmot
  
    
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and
  incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a
  fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or
  actual events is purely coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2013 M.B. Wilmot
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  ISBN: 1492286060
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1492286066
  
    
  
  _For Iselda_
  
    
  
    
  
  **CONTENTS**
  
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  Acknowledgments
  
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  **OPE ET CONSILIO**
  
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  **I CAN RUN TO BENNING JUST LIKE THIS**
  
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  3
  
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  **A VERY MERRY CRISIS**
  
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  4
  
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  **WALKING IN THE DARK**
  
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  5
  
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  **GOOD RAN MATTINGLY**
  
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  **LIONESS**
  
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  7
  
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  **FLIES ON THE WALL IN THE EMERALD CITY**
  
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  8
  
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  **I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS HANUKKAH**
  
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  225  
    
  9
  
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  **CASSANDRA IS SCREAMING**
  
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  10
  
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  **EXPLOSION AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTER**
  
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  **LO