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as Amherst College Professor Ilan Stavans pointed out on the 400th anniversary of
Cervantes’ death.
8
Miguel de Cervantes alone suggests that the creative imagination is humanity’s
response to its own annihilatory impulses. That is not to say that creativity does not
exist in every living organism. It does. But the degree to which Don Quixote himself
8 See “Marking the 400
th Anniversary Of Cervantes’ Death,” May 11, 2016, NPR, https://www.
wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/05/11/cervantes-anniversary, Accessed March 27, 2020.
Fig. 34.2 Don Quixote, Rocinante, Sancho Panza and Dapple at the Windmill, Engraving by
Gustave Doré, from the two-volume 1863 French Edition, L’ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte De
La Manche, by Miguel De Cervantès Saavedra, Librairie De L., Hachette, et Co. (Private
Collection). (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
34.2 The Illustrated Dreamers
as Amherst College Professor Ilan Stavans pointed out on the 400th anniversary of
Cervantes’ death.
8
Miguel de Cervantes alone suggests that the creative imagination is humanity’s
response to its own annihilatory impulses. That is not to say that creativity does not
exist in every living organism. It does. But the degree to which Don Quixote himself
8 See “Marking the 400
th Anniversary Of Cervantes’ Death,” May 11, 2016, NPR, https://www.
wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/05/11/cervantes-anniversary, Accessed March 27, 2020.
Fig. 34.2 Don Quixote, Rocinante, Sancho Panza and Dapple at the Windmill, Engraving by
Gustave Doré, from the two-volume 1863 French Edition, L’ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte De
La Manche, by Miguel De Cervantès Saavedra, Librairie De L., Hachette, et Co. (Private
Collection). (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
34.2 The Illustrated Dreamers