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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