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CARLOS M. PELÁEZ received a PhD and BS, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, City of New York, USA. He has published books, essays and articles worldwide, including International Financial Architecture, The Global Recession Risk, Globalization and the State: Volume I, Globalization and the State: Volume II and Financial Regulation after the Global Recession. He was Director of the Banco Chase and of the Rio de Janeiro Association of Banks and Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, USA. He is Managing Director of CMP Associates, USA. CARLOS A. PELÁEZ received the AB in Statistics from the University of Chicago, USA and the JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the Journal of International Law. He has published books and essays worldwide, including International Financial Architecture, The Global Recession Risk, Globalization and the State: Volume I, Globalization and the State: Volume II and Financial Regulation after the Global Recession. He works for a large law firm in New York City, USA.
It's such a delight when a book surprises you. Who'd have thought there was anything new to be said about Spain and the tale of Don Quiote? Surely we know everything it's worth knowing about such a familiar place and such a well-known story? But no - Miranda France (a gift of a name for a travel writer) succeeds in intriguing us. The glory of Don Quixot's Delusions is in the detail. The author has the most astute eye. She makes the very ordinary and seemingly mundane not just interesting, but fascinating and full of meaning. Spain is out under a microscope. So, under France's guidance, we sniff for the first time 'a marriage of hairspray and cologne' which breezes down the city streets each night at eight, heralding the start of the El Paseo, the ritual of the evening stroll. Such minute observations are matched with amusing facts that I find myself quoting often : Spaniards are the most sociable Europeans, spending at least two and a half hours a day with friends. And did you know that Spain has only slightly fewer bars than the rest of the European Union put together? France's story is set in three times - the early 17th century of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, the most translated book after the Bible; 1987, when France spent a year as a student in Madrid; and the present day, when she returns to Spain to find both Cervantes and her younger self. The three eras meld beautifully, so we get a complete picture of a country and its people through vast historical changes. This book shows that fine travel writing dies not have to be about the distant and exotic. It proves that a place we can be blase about may still make the best story. Review by: DEA BIRKETT. Editor's note: DEA BIRKETT is the author of Serpent in Paradise. (Kirkus UK)
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