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The humor derives from his ability to contort everything he sees to a demented world view based on silly books - however it is a measure of Cervantes' skill as an author that we come to sympathize with Don Quixote more than those who mock him, as much as the latter may be correct. | The humor derives from his ability to contort everything he sees to a demented world view based on silly books - however it is a measure of Cervantes' skill as an author that we come to sympathize with Don Quixote more than those who mock him, as much as the latter may be correct. | ||
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Don Quixote (Don Quijote in modern Spanish) is a tragi-comic novel by Miguel Cervantes, written in two parts in the late 16th and early 17 century and 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 humor derives from his ability to contort everything he sees to a demented world view based on silly books - however it is a measure of Cervantes' skill as an author that we come to sympathize with Don Quixote more than those who mock him, as much as the latter may be correct.
The most often remembered by readers of Don Quixote is the instance when he attacked several windmills thinking that they were giants.