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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

Peter da Silva peter at baileynm.com
Wed Sep 23 14:51:50 EST 1998


In article <360943a4.17842976 at 192.168.2.34>,
Dave Hansen <dhansen at btree.com> wrote:
>On 23 Sep 1998 17:36:17 GMT, peter at baileynm.com (Peter da Silva)
>wrote:
>>It's hard to point to any particular literary figure as being really critical.
>>Shakespeare was a man of his times, and he didn't introduce a new artform so
>>much as develop it. How about Daniel Defoe, who wrote the first modern novel
>>(even if it was based roughly on real events, Selkirk and Crusoe were not at
>>all similar...).

>I thought Miguel de Cervantes earned that honor for "Don Quixote"

I suppose so, though I think it could be argued that it's got more in common
with older allegories and morality plays rather than novels...

(I'll agree that Don Quixote was probably a better work of literature)

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