The Duchess’s Diary

Robin Chapman

Faber and Faber London 1985

stan dobry

str. 126

format 13 x 20,5 cm

waga 240 g

Maria Isabel, Duchess of Caparosso, falls in love with Cervantes, author of 'Don Quixote', but believes he has misrepresented her character in his work. Consumed by the need to clear her name, her quest for truth and her progress back into the world with hope restored, a love story is told that reaffirms the reader's faith in humanity.

Robin Chapman's account of his young Duchess is moving and exhilarating. this story shows a truer understanding of Cervantes than twenty books of criticism. E. C. Riley

A remarkable tour-de-force; more than a gem of literary history, it is a highly imaginative achievement, full of peasant gusto, aristocratic hysteria and great fun. Paul Theroux

A moving and imaginative peeling away of those dark and tragic layers which underline the shiny gloss of fiction in the course of which, almost casually but with amazing grace, Robin Chapman recreates the whole world of Cervantes's Spain. Fay Weldon