"Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing." So begins the most famous novel of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quijote de la Mancha."
Tuesday afternoon, these words echoed through the octagonal sidings and stained-glass windows of the Chancellor Green Rotunda in a language far from home: Arabic.
The occasion was the first day of the celebration of Don Quixote's 400th anniversary, "Book Errant: 400 Years Reading Don Quixote," organized by the department of Spanish and Portuguese. The week began with a multilingual celebration.
The first sentence was read in Arabic, the second in Spanish, the third in English, then in French, Italian, German and Chinese.
The celebration of Cervantes' book continued Wednesday night with a showing of Grigori Kozintsev's 1957 film, "Don Quixote."
Today and tomorrow, the University will host discussions by experts from Princeton and elsewhere, including Spanish and Protugese professors Paul Firbas and Marina Brownlee and English professor Michael Wood.
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