IS 'CHIVALRY' DEAD?
A BOOK CLUB ON DON QUIXOTE
Weekly Thursdays, 5:30-7:00PM (Dinner provided)
Begins June 19, until August 14 (With a break: July 11-July 24)
Harvard Catholic Center/St. Paul’s, Cambridge, MA
Led by HCF Graduate Fellow Jordan Vanderpool
Are we the authors of our own stories? Is there some great quest that only each of us can fulfill? If so, how do we write these tales, practice virtue, and achieve our quests in a world completely disoriented from its once unquestionable Divine telos? These are the questions Miguel de Cervantes’ titular character Don Quixote wrestles with as he wanders through hill and forest, inn and valley in crisis-riven, post-Reformation Spain. These are also the questions that readers must confront as we accompany him. Tragic, comic, alluring, and shocking, Don Quixote poses many questions for us, but how ought we answer them? All reading will be in translation, but comparative insights from those who know Spanish are welcome. Dinner and drinks provided.
The book is available for free online, and for purchase on major sites.
OPEN TO ALL - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
IN-PERSON ONLY
Wilhelm Marstrand, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, painting, c. 1847, Nivaagaard Museum, Denmark