Miguel de Cervantes

1547 – 1616 · Spain · Literature

Don Quixote, the first modern novel and the most translated after the Bible.

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  • Gabriel García Márquez

    1927 – 2014 · Literature

    The picaresque and the ironic chronicle are Cervantine equipment in the Latin American novel.

  • Jorge Luis Borges

    1899 – 1986 · Literature, Philosophy

    'Pierre Menard' makes the Quixote the founding problem of authorship.

  • Machado de Assis

    1839 – 1908 · Literature

    The unreliable, digressive narrator descends from Don Quixote.

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