Pablo PICASSO’s 1955
French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises
in celebration of the 350th anniversary
in celebration of the 350th anniversary
of the first part of Cervantes’s
DON QUIXOTE.
(Cover art by Gustave Doré)
Miguel CERVANTES, perhaps the onlywriter ever captured by pirates,wrote the epic novel(EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA).Part I published 1605 - Part II 1615, itis considered the most influential workof literature in the entire Spanish canonand has spawned the adjective “quixotic”------
British artist Sir John EVERETT Millais
painted OPHELIA singing before she drowns.
Oil on canvas 1851- 1852.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s play, HAMLET.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s play, HAMLET.
William SHAKESPEARE’swritten between 1599 and 1602 andderived from the legend of Amleth.It is his longest and most influentialwork; who among us has not askedat some point in our life“Etre ou ne pas être?”------
Lewis Carroll’s
ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
One of twelve heliogravures,
one for each chapter of the
book published by
Maecenas Press -
Random House,
New York in 1969.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
One of twelve heliogravures,
one for each chapter of the
book published by
Maecenas Press -
Random House,
New York in 1969.
In 1862 Charles Dodgson, an Oxfordmathematician with a stammer,created a story about a little girltumbling down a rabbit holeunder the pen name Lewis Carroll:Insipid Alice is a bit of a bore butwho doesn’t love the Mad Hatter,the Queen of Hearts,the Cheshire cat?
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