News Release
September 2005
Bethlehem, Pa., September 27, 2005—Moravian College will celebrate
the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’ s picaresque novel, Don
Quixote, with a three-week long film series followed by a lecture titled Windmills
of Fame, Chariots of Perdition: The Equivocal Defeats of Cervantes and Don Quixote by Dr.
Frederick A. De Armas. The film series will be shown on Saturday, October 1 , 15, and
22, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Prosser Auditorium, Haupert Union Building. Refreshments
will be offered after each occasion. The lecture will take place on November 3 at 7:30
pm., in Prosser Auditorium. The Haupert Union Building is located at the corner of Monocacy
and Laurel Streets in Bethlehem. Both the film series and the lecture are free and open
to the public.
The Moravian College Spanish Club is sponsoring the movie series
showing a new segment of El Quijote each week. The film was originally produced in
1990 as a miniseries in Spanish by Radiotele-visión Española. Moravian will feature it in Spanish
with English subtitles. El Quijote is considered the most faithful adaptation of the
Don Quixote story on screen. The late Spanish acting legend Fernando Rey stars as the
title character. Rey is best known in the United States as a lead character in The
French Connection. Also involved in the production were scriptwriter and 1989 Nobel laureate
for Literature Camilo José Cela; international award-winning director Miguel Gutérrez
Aragón; and award-winning actor Alfredo Landa, as Sancho Panza.
De Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at the
University of Chicago and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
His lecture is sponsored by The Arts and Lectures Committee of Moravian College, the
Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges and the Foreign Language Department
at Moravian College. De Armas’ specialty
is the Golden Age of Spanish Literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He
is the author of Cervantes, Raphael and the Classics and Writing for the Eyes in
the Spanish Golden Age.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal arts college located
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's
sixth-oldest college. Visit the web site at www.moravian.edu.
