Cautivos

Ariel Dorfman

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English

OR Books
12 May 2020

Historical fiction; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

This short novel is about confinement, both of the mind and of the body, and therefore also about liberation.

Set in the last years of the 16th century,Cautivosis a meditation on writing, writers, and creativity. Then as now, Islam and Christianity were at loggerheads and women found themselves playing new roles, and imprisonment or worse was society's answer to everything from murder to dissent.

Writer/activist Ariel Dorfman imagines for us scenes from the picaresque life of Miguel de Cervantes, a man who wrestled as intensely with the contradictions implicit in writing fiction-how can one write something ""real"" if it is labelled fiction, but in fact how can one write anything ""real"" unless it is fiction?-as any scribbler who followed him in the centuries since. Cervantes, of course, was the soldier, spy and adventurer who in 1605 gave the worldDon Quixote, often described as the first modern novel, a book that has influenced Western culture perhaps more than any other book save the Bible.

InCautivos, we are witness to the birth of the spirit of Don Quixote de la Mancha: an honorable if doomed figure whose travails mirror those of Miguel de Cervantes himself. Few writers have written more lovingly about their subjects than Cervantes wrote about his Quixote, and few are better positioned to appreciate the spiritual journey of Cervantes himself than Ariel Dorfman, who-not unlike Cervantes-has been alternately hounded and fted by those in authority.

By: Ariel Dorfman
Imprint: OR Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781682192290
ISBN 10: 1682192296
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 12 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ariel Dorfman's work covers almost every genre available (plays, novels, short stories, fiction, essays, journalism, opinion pieces, memoirs, screenplays). He is the author of How to Read Donald Duck and Homeland Security Ate My Speech, both available from OR Books. His modern classic ""Death and the Maiden"" will return to Broadway in the fall of 2020.

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He has written movingly and often brilliantly of the cultural dislocations and political fractures of his dual heritage. - The New York Times Notions of authorship, creator, and creatures, as well as of love, folly, and imagination, dominate... Lets us imagine the author and his creation in new ways. - The New York Review of Books Full of complications... Nuanced and shaped by existential crises and displacement and exile - CounterPunch

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