The recently recaptured drug lord Joaquín Guzmán has been given a copy of Cervantes’ classic by prison officials because he is ‘depressed and tired’Dostoevsky called Don Quixote “the final and greatest utterance of the human mind”. Coleridge said that its author,Miguel de Cervantes, had achieved “the highest creation of genius”. Hailed as one of the world’s greatest literary works for centuries, and the mock-epic Spanish novel is currently undertaking one of its biggest challenges yet: cheering up the recently recaptured drugs kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Eduardo Guerrero,head of Mexico’s prisons system, told Radio Imagen that when El Chapo was recaptured earlier this month after escaping six months ago, and “he arrived depressed,and more than depressed, tired – tired of being on the hurry”.
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Source: theguardian.com