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Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman in his fifties, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible. Quixano eventually appears to other people to have lost his mind from little sleep and food and because of so much reading.
The novel's structure is in episodic form. It is a humorous novel in the picares ...more
The novel's structure is in episodic form. It is a humorous novel in the picares ...more
I had to read this in Spanish for a Don Quixote class I took. A whole class just on one book-but trust me, the time was necessary especially since we were reading it in Spanish (along with the English translation of course!) I did like it but really, discussing a book for an entire semester really can suck the life out of a story (and a person!)
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