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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
54, 1996
Two Weeks with Don
Quixote
The 1996 Hilliard Foundation Scholar, Professor Juan
Bautista Avalle-Arce, is an international authority on
Cervantes and his work. Dr. Avalle-Arce is also the
José Miguel Barandiarán Professor of Basque
Studies and the Chair of Spanish and Portuguese at the
Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara. He spent two weeks
at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he presented three
lectures. “Cervantes and the Unreliable Narrator”
was the first lecture, delivered to a room crowded with
interested listeners on March 20, 1996. Dr.
Avalle-Arce’s gentle manner and dry wit charmed the
audience.
On March 25, he spoke about “The Cervantine
Influence on Nineteenth-Century Literature: Dickens,
Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Galdós, Twain.” And on
March 27, the topic was “La novela argentina reflejada
in Güiraldes y en Borges.”
In conjunction with the lectures, the University
screened two films, “Don Quijote” and “Man of
La Mancha.” All the events were funded by the Hilliard
Foundation and were co-sponsored by the Departments of
Basque Studies, Foreign Languages, and
English.
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