Don Quixote in Russia and Russian quixotism

The monograph is devoted to the fate of Roman Servanes "Don Quixote" in Russia as one of the rare in the history of culture of examples of transformation of the literary phenomenon of one country in the dominant of cultural and public life. The author shows that in Russia in the "Don Quixote", they saw not just a brilliant book, but the parable of human destination, and in the knights of the sad image - the prophet or false prophet, the myth of which can serve as the key to the events of Russian intellectual and public life. Countless Russian interpretations of the Roman Servantes and the image of his main character were aimed at the contemporary, carried out in the Russian culture of the XVIII-XIX centuries. First of all, moral tasks. Some faces of this, the book is still devoted to this.
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