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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. | + | '''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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 23:14, April 8, 2007
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 humour derives from his ability to contort everything he sees to a demented worldview based on silly books - 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.