Addled Knight Goes Looking for Trouble and Finds It: "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
“El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.”
In "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote is one of my favourite novels, exasperating though it is at times with all those stories within stories knockabout humour and cruel practical jokes. Simply because it’s so complex, we both admire and laugh at Don Quixote. When he speaks we are inclined to share his world view. And then Cervantes reminds us of what a ridiculous figure he is and undermines the effect. Until Quixote opens his mouth again. This happens again and again - until we end up seeing the novel - and the world - in two incompatible ways at once.
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