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22/04/2005
Don Quixote gets boost in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged everyone to read Miguel de Cervantes' Spanish classic, Don Quixote.
The Venezuelan government has printed one million copies of Don Quixote to give away to the citizens of the country in the nation's public squares on 23 April.
"Let us all read Quixote to feed ourselves once again with that spirit of a fighter who went out to undo injustices and fix the world," Chavez told viewers on his Hello President TV show.
Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 novel tells the tale of hopelessly idealistic would-be knight, Don Quixote, wandering Spain along with his faithful servant, Sancho Panza, and sometimes fighting imaginary giants that are actually windmills.
The Venezuelan edition has a prologue by Portuguese Nobel literature prize laureate Jose Saramago, and contains illustrations of Quixote's adventures.
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