Over nearly two decades, before reaching the final celebrity with Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov taught literature courses at Wellesley and Cornell, and their classes, over time, have come to
constitute a true legend. It's not often that students have to master one of the best authors of the moment, but neither is a novelist add to his talent as a vocation clear and effective
teaching, and as free from academic conventions. This unusual freedom of opinion shines in the course on Don Quixote with particular intensity, as against a book like Cervantes, so covered with
incense, Nabokov does not hesitate to point out flaws and missteps, or ""righting"" topics stubborn, precisely to highlight the true values of the story of Don Quixote and Sancho.
