Miguel de Cervantes
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ copy of Don Quixote fetches €500,000 at auction
Total of €900,000 paid for Cervantes’ works that a diplomat bought on a shopping trip to London in 1930s
Sam Jones in Madrid
14, Dec, 2022 @5:26 PM
‘Miracle find’: rare Don Quixote and short stories could sell for €900k
Sotheby’s describes 17th-century Cervantes editions as a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity for collectors
Sam Jones in Madrid
06, Oct, 2022 @1:44 PM
Don Quixote: Man of Clackmannanshire review – the knight-errant mounts a mobility scooter
Dundee Rep
This modern-day take on Cervantes’ classic novel follows the ageing Donald who has had enough of daytime television, tea and biscuits
This modern-day take on Cervantes’ classic novel follows the ageing Donald who has had enough of daytime television, tea and biscuits
Mark Fisher
06, Oct, 2022 @10:36 AM
‘First modern novel – oldest language’: Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion
Translated by two Kashmiri pandits from an C18th English translation in the 1930s, unique work lay forgotten in a Harvard University library
Sam Jones in Madrid
06, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM
Lost in La Mancha review – landmark doc of Terry Gilliam’s cinematic nightmare
Gilliam’s epic travails filming Don Quixote are well worth seeing again – and should be on the syllabus at every film school
Peter Bradshaw
13, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM
The True Don Quixote review – Tim Blake Nelson tilts at whimsy in Cervantes update
The Coen brothers regular plays a delusional ex-librarian who goes questing on a motorbike and sidecar in this good-natured retelling of the classic adventure
Leslie Felperin
27, Jul, 2021 @11:00 AM
Chinese Don Quixote is translated into Spanish after 100 years
Lin Shu’s forgotten 1922 text, The Story of the Enchanted Knight – with a less deluded Don Quixote – in edition for China and Spain
Sam Jones in Madrid
23, Apr, 2021 @4:00 AM
'It had been on my shelf for years': readers share their lockdown reads
Publishers report that coronavirus has boosted sales of long, classic novels. You reveal the great baggy monsters you’ve found the time to tackle
Guardian readers and Rachel Obordo
06, Nov, 2020 @10:00 AM
Top 10 genre-twisting novels | Alan Trotter
From Cervantes’ warping of chivalric romance to Flann O’Brien’s narrative games, novelist Alan Trotter picks his favourite convention-smashing tales
Alan Trotter
13, Feb, 2019 @11:48 AM
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote review – Terry Gilliam's epic journey finds a joyous end
After a three-decade production ordeal Gilliam has delivered a sun-baked fable of money, madness and the movie business – and done so with trademark infectious charm
Peter Bradshaw
18, May, 2018 @4:34 PM
Spanish publisher subverts court gag by using Don Quixote to recreate banned book
Finding Fariña website allows access to exposé of drug trafficking in Galicia while author, Nacho Carretero, and publisher face legal action
Alison Flood
21, Mar, 2018 @3:01 PM
Lost in La Mancha's Jean Rochefort, veteran French actor, dies at 87
Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation
Staff and agencies
09, Oct, 2017 @12:34 PM
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