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Ilan Stavans

Biography

Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the author of many books, including SPANGLISH: The Making of a New American Language and A MOST IMPERFECT UNION. He is also general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.

Ilan Stavans

Books by Ilan Stavans

by Ilan Stavans - Cultural Studies, History, Nonfiction

The year 2015 marked the 400th anniversary of the publication of the complete DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and even shapes the identities of entire nations. In QUIXOTE, Ilan Stavans explores these many manifestations. Training his eye on the tumultuous struggle between logic and dreams, he reveals the ways in which a work of literature is a living thing that influences and is influenced by the world around it.