Don Quixote: Summary and Analysis
Posted on Feb 23, in Latin
Don Quixote: Publication History
The first edition of Don Quixote appeared in , although there is evidence of a previous version from After seeing an unauthorized continuation of his work, Cervantes decided to continue the adventures of Don Quixote, publishing a second part in
Composition and Structure
The work is structured in two parts, and its action is organized around Don Quixote&#;s three departures. The first two are narrated in Part 1, and the last in Part 2.
Part 1
The knight Don Alonso Quijano loses his mind from reading books of chivalry and decides to go in search of adventure under the name of Don Quixote. He seeks to undo wrongs and earn the love of the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, who is actually a peasant girl from a nearby village named Aldonza Lorenzo.
In his first outing, he is knighted in an inn that he mistakes for a castle and frees a young man from his abusive employer. Finally, he returns home to find his village. The priest and the barber burn the library books that are considered responsible for his condition.
In his second departure, Don Quixote is accompanied by Sancho Panza, a n
Widely regarded as both the world&#;s first modern novel and a comic masterpiece, the completed version of Don Quixote is celebrating its th birthday in It&#;s a fairly lengthy book that most educated persons have heard of, but many have not yet read &#; at least all the way through.
To help celebrate Don Quixote&#;s significant anniversary, we asked Dr. Paul Larson, professor of Spanish and director of undergraduate studies in Spanish at Baylor, to provide an introduction to the book for those who have never read it, or those who wish to read it again after many years away.
Larson, who counts Don Quixote as one of his favorite books from a lifetime of reading, says he prefers the Edith Grossman translation first released in as the best English translation of the Spanish masterpiece.
On Don Quixote
By Dr. Paul Larson
Don Quixote, whose original title in Spanish is El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes that was first published in two volumes, in and It is considered one of the most influential works in world literature of the pre-modern era, having been translated into every major language. The novel is, to some ex
Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember…
This line, arguably the most famous in the history of Spanish literature, is the opening of The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, the first modern novel.
Published in two parts in and , this is the story of Alonso Quijano, a 16th-century Spanish hidalgo, a noble, who is so passionate about reading that he leaves home in search of his own chivalrous adventures. He becomes a knight-errant himself: Don Quixote de la Mancha. By imitating his admired literary heroes, he finds new meaning in his life: aiding damsels in distress, battling giants and righting wrongs… mostly in his own head.
But Don Quixote is much more. It is a book about books, reading, writing, idealism vs. materialism, life … and death. Don Quixote is mad. “His brain’s dried up” due to his reading, and he is unable to separate reality from fiction, a trait that was appreciated at the time as funny. However, Cervantes was also using Don Quixote’s insanity to probe the eternal debate between free will and fate. The misguided hero is actually a man fighting against his own limitations to become who he
Alonso Quijano
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Alonso Quixano, the fictitious hero of Don Quixote.
Depending on which film version of "Don Quixote" one watches, different adventures are included but the most famous, which turns up in every adaptation, is Quixote's attack on the windmills, which he believes to be ferocious giants.
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Madness by reading too much
The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. His "lady" is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farmgirl by the illusion-struck "knight" (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. In addition, she never actually appears in the novel).
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