Introduction : the question of influence / Edwin Williamson -- Towards a typology of Quixotisms / Nocholas G. Round -- Invisible works : Cervantes reads Borges and Nabokov / Michael Wood -- Cervantes, Goytisolo, and the sodomitical scene / Paul Julian Smith -- Prisons and pleasures of the mind : a comparative reading of Cervantes and Proust / Edward J. Hughes -- Whatever happened to heroes? : Don Quixote and some major European novels of the twentieth century / E.C. Riley -- Novel, story and the foreign : Cervantes, Thomas Mann and Primo Levi / Michael Bell -- The Quixotic roots of magic realism : history and fiction from Alejo Carpentier to Gabriel García Márquez / Writing the present, reading the past : Cervantes, Güiraldes, Fuentes / Philip Swanson -- The problem of the book : Don Quixote in the age of mechanical reproduction / Dietrich Scheunemann