The Holy Inquisition of Art: Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Terry Gilliam’s film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Cover Image

Светата инквизиция на творчеството: романът „Дон Кихот“ на Мигел де Сервантес и филмът „Човекът, който уби Дон Кихот“ на Тери Гилиъм
The Holy Inquisition of Art: Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Terry Gilliam’s film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Author(s): Sofiya Todorova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: authorship; authenticity; transgression; sketch comedy

Summary/Abstract: This paper concerns some paradoxes of the creative process outlined in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Terry Giliam’s movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: driven by constructive and destructive impetuses, the author’s personality strengthens and destroys itself in a duel between the imagination and the flattings made by reality. Terry Giliam’s surrealistic film grotesque turns Cervantes’ plot into a mythical text of self-construction as an everlasting tilt at windmills of time and obsessive extant models; a tilt at windmills of Holy Inquisition of censorship and self-censorship.

  • Issue Year: 5/2019
  • Issue No: 2 (10)
  • Page Range: 151-160
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian