A MAN CALLED CERVANTES—Bruno Frank—Viking ($2.50). In 50 words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: “A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, ...

HENDERSON, THE RAIN KING (341 pp.) —Saul Bellow—Viking ($4.50). Is Don Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as “the World—that ...

“The Captive” offers the intriguing concept of the author of “Don Quixote” viewed through a lens more redolent of “Arabian Nights,” spinning tales to keep himself alive while a hostage of Moors in ...

MADRID (AFP) ― Researchers looking for the remains of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes said Monday they had found part of a casket at a Madrid convent bearing the initials of the “Don Quixote” ...

This conceptually ambitious, if uneven feature from Alejandro Amenábar portrays pre-fame scribe Miguel Cervantes as a Spanish hostage in a 16th-century Algiers. Those not expecting a more ...