A sea trip with Don Quixote

Author's name: Thomas Mann Publisher: Hayat Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Travel Literature Book overview: Let's talk about travel books; the truth is that travel books are a literary genre that has long been looked down upon and despised, as the common opinion among people is that travel readings should be of those that lighten their weight and diminish their triviality, meaning those books through which one wastes time. But I have never understood that! There is no doubt that what they call entertainment literature is the most boring type of literature on earth, but regardless of that, I do not understand how a reader abandons their reading habits, especially on a sea voyage of such importance and seriousness, and lowers their taste to read shallow-level books! On May 19, 1934, Nobel author Thomas Mann began a sea voyage to the United States, accompanied by the novel "Don Quixote." The author sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and at the same time across the vast ocean of stories of the world of "Don Quixote," as he described it, offering his insightful interpretation of the most famous novel in literary history, accompanied by his thoughts on the idea of travel, travel literature, the art of novel writing, and the art of translation, ending the work with a sweet dream, in which he faced Don Quixote face to face.