Bought In August 2019 and I’m glad to have it! Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as the squire, often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical monologues on knighthood, already considered old-fashioned at the time. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story.
While Part One was mostly farcical, the second half is more serious and philosophical about the theme of deception. Cervantes' meta-fictional device was to make even the characters in the story familiar with the publication of Part One, as well as with an actually published, fraudulent Part Two.
Read for class with Álvaro Antonio Bernal with Osher, March 14-April 11, 2023.
Satire:
Inquisition of books in the library scene pp. 45-54
Knights are more useful than priests, p. 88
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