Cervantes Quotes
Quotes on Cervantes and his place in literary history.
One quote ranks Cervantes alongside Shakespeare, Dante, and Moliere, arguing his reputation reaches far beyond Spain into broader world Culture. Another turns personal, noting Cervantes married at thirty-seven and spent only about half of his thirty-year marriage living with his wife.
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
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I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way...
The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in...
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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
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There's also irony in the quote about the Premio Cervantes literary prize, joking that Cervantes himself would barely recognize the honor named after him. This page pairs well with the Beautiful quotes describing him as everywhere and nowhere at once.
