Dore's Illustrations for Don Quixote

Dore's Illustrations for Don Quixote
by Gustave Dore

Dore's Illustrations for Don Quixote
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Author: Gustave Dore
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1982-07-01
ISBN: 0486243001
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Dover Publications

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Book Review: An extraordinary visual companion to DON QUIXOTE
Summary: 5 Stars

Gustave Dor? was a frustrated painter. Forced by circumstance to produce illustration illustrations for a number of literary works, he primarily longed for fame and success as a painter. But while shooting for fame as a painter, he inadvertently achieved immortality as arguably the greatest illustrator in history.

Most illustrators of the classics fall far short of the efforts of the works they are asked to illustrate, but Dor? almost always managed to eerily echo visually the genius of the original authors. After reading the first half of DON QUIXOTE, I discovered this Dover collection of Dor?'s illustrations of the work, and I found them to be completely stunning. Dor? had a genius for precisely visualizing events in the novel and transferring them precisely into his illustrations. No scene is too much of a challenge to him. The famous moment when Don Quixote attacks the windmills, mistaking them as giants, is depicted brilliantly by Dor?. Every famous scene and many less famous scenes are all depicted, and I can honestly say that not once does Dor? disappoint me in his imaging of how the scene occurred. One can, if one wants, make minor quibbles with Dor?, such as his drawing Quixote wearing the wash basin helmet even in section later in the novel where he is said to have worn a sallet helmet. But this truly would be mere quibbling, for throughout Dor? perfectly captures the spirit of DON QUIXOTE.

I'm convinced that this collection of illustrations is not nearly as well known as it deserves to be. Graphic novels are an extremely popular genre today, and it is impossible to imagine anyone interested in the visual aspects of those stories not being fascinated by Dor?'s far more complex and classically organized illustrations. Likewise, no one interested in graphic art or the history of art could not find these less than riveting. Most of all, anyone who loves DON QUIXOTE will adore these drawings, and to work through the various illustrations is to relive all the glorious events of the novel once again. Indeed, one could almost argue that while other translators have managed with more or less success to translate Cervantes's masterpiece into English or German or French, Dor? managed to translate the novel into a purely visual language.

Summary of Dore's Illustrations for Don Quixote

Dor?'s sympathy to Cervantes' satire was so complete that, of numerous interpretations by many artists, his has become standard. Here are 190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions.

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