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New page: '''Don Quixote''' is a tragi-comic novel by Miguel Cervantes, written in two parts in the late 16th and early 17 century often considered one of the greatest of all time. Its protagon...
'''Don Quixote''' is a tragi-comic novel by [[Miguel Cervantes]], written in two parts in the late 16th and early 17 century often considered one of the greatest of all time.
Its protagonist is a minor aristocrat who has read rather rather too many books of [[chivalry]] and imagines himself a knight battling supernatural and mythological beings in a mundane environment where they simply do not exist.
The humour derives from his ability to contort everything he sees to his demented worldview - however it is a measure of Cervantes' skill as an author that we come to sympathise with Don Quixote more than those who mock him, as much as the latter may be correct.
Its protagonist is a minor aristocrat who has read rather rather too many books of [[chivalry]] and imagines himself a knight battling supernatural and mythological beings in a mundane environment where they simply do not exist.
The humour derives from his ability to contort everything he sees to his demented worldview - however it is a measure of Cervantes' skill as an author that we come to sympathise with Don Quixote more than those who mock him, as much as the latter may be correct.