Rosinante to the Road Again

ISBN-13: 9780987153234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 140 str.

John Dos Passos

Opis

Alluding to Don Quixote's wanderings on his faithful steed, the author describes a post-Great War Spain in which two friends, who are foreigners, journey from Madrid to Toledo, encountering the common people at the crossroads of an Old Spain and a new one being born.

The title of John Dos Passos' evocative early novel alludes to Don Quixote’s horse in that most celebrated of Spanish novels that follows the adventures of a wandering dreamer. Dos Passos spins a tale of two travellers making their way by foot from Madrid to Toledo in post-World War I Spain. Along the way, they encounter simple, earthy folk on the trail and in taverns, providing a convenient backdrop for Dos Passos's observations on the tension between old agrarian ways and new industrial imperatives. Dos Passos interweaves the story with chapters about the finest Hispanic poets and novelists of the day. One of his earliest books and a most poetic use of the English language.