See All 20 of Eko's Original Woodcut Illustrations for Don Quixote

Lavishly illustrated by the Mexican artist Eko, the Restless Classics' 400th Anniversary Edition of Don Quixote launches on October 6. Get a sneak peek below of his 20 brilliantly original woodcut illustrations for the book. 

“The anecdotes are inventions from the character’s fantastic imagination. They are attributed to madness because at that time creation was limited to theology. The creation in Don Quixote is an exercise of a pure creation that inspires us." —Eko

“I have found no mention made of knights-errant eating, unless by accident or at some sumptuous banquets prepared for them, and the rest of the time they passed in dalliance.”

“What we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that turned by the wind make the millstone go.”

“With little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits.”

Alonso Quijano and his greyhound for coursing

Don Quixote and Dulcinea del Toboso

The puppet-showman Master Pedro and his question-answering ape

Don Quixote and the Knight of the White Moon

“So long as the game lasts, each piece has its own particular office, and when the game is finished they are all mixed, jumbled up and shaken together, and stowed away in the bag, which is much like ending life in the grave.”

Don Quixote descends into Montesinos’s cave

A Moor and his captives

Facing the giant...

Facing the giant...

The priest and the barber burn Alonso Quijano’s books of chivalry

Don Quixote and company at Quiteria’s wedding

Don Quixote in the barber and priest’s cage

Master Pedro puts on a puppet show

Don Quixote and Sancho enter Barcelona

Don Quixote faces the lions

Don Quixote, upon entering Barcelona, contemplates the sea

The death of Don Quixote

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by Miguel de Cervantes

Translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby

Introduction and Video Lecture Series by Ilan Stavans

Illustrations by Eko

Restless Classics

Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha—called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel—inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Each Restless Classic is beautifully designed with original artwork, a new introduction for the trade audience, and an online video teaching series led by passionate experts. 

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060754
Publication date: October 6, 2015

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About the Artist

Born in Mexico in 1958, Eko is a cartoonist, engraver, and painter. His wood etchings, often erotic in nature and the focus of controversial discussion, are part of a broader tradition in Mexican folk art popularized by José Guadalupe Posada. He has collaborated on projects for The New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Spanish daily El País, in addition to having published numerous books in Mexico and Spain.