{"id":2125,"date":"2016-01-21T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/grll\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2023-10-09T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:36:54","slug":"the-man-who-invented-fiction","status":"publish","type":"faculty-books","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/faculty-books\/the-man-who-invented-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Invented Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the early 17th&nbsp;century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain&#8217;s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, <em>Don Quixote<\/em>, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World<\/em> explores Cervantes&#8217;s life and the world he lived in, showing how his influences converged in his work, and how his work\u2014especially <em>Don Quixote<\/em>\u2014radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics, and science, and how the world today would be unthinkable without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four hundred years after Cervantes&#8217;s death, William Egginton has brought thrilling new meaning to an immortal novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2126,"template":"","program":[10487],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-books\/2125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-books"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-books\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-books\/2125\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}