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Week 2: Part I, Chapters 14–26
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This thread is for discussing Part I, Chapters 14 through 26 of Don Quixote, which will take place (roughly) between January 20 and January 26, 2014.
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I only got one chapter into this week's reading, but boy am I relieved that the goatherd/funeral section is finally over. Don Q and Sancho are moving on!
I'm amused by how sensible and well-reasoned an answer he lets Marcela give to those absurd pseudo-shepherds who want to blame her when they fancy her and can't have her. Thanks Cervantes. And thanks DQ for waving his lance in defence of her, convinced by the perfect justice of her speech.
I really liked Marcela - I hope she comes into it again in the future. I really got into this book during these chapters so it will be interesting to see what you all think of them. They are definitely my favourite chapters so far.
Carina wrote: "I really liked Marcela - I hope she comes into it again in the future. I really got into this book during these chapters so it will be interesting to see what you all think of them. They are defini..."I'm still unsure about her, but am hoping to see more of her in the future, too! Her speech almost seemed ideal and not what the others expected. I wonder if Don Q is a little too trusting and naive..
“And if chastity is one of the virtues that most adorn and beautify both body and soul, why should a woman, loved for being beautiful, lose that virtue in order to satisfy the desire of a man who, for the sake of his pleasure, attempts with all his might and main to have her lose it?”
Four hundred years ago, motherfuckers.
Bryn wrote: "I'm amused by how sensible and well-reasoned an answer he lets Marcela give to those absurd pseudo-shepherds who want to blame her when they fancy her and can't have her. Thanks Cervantes. And than..."YES!!!
Jason wrote: "Four hundred years ago, motherfuckers."haha Jason!
Great stuff!!!You know, I read first this when I was a teenaged girl, and that part spoke to me.
Bryn wrote: "Way amused end of chapter 19 by how he gets his Knight of the Sorrowful Face name. [spoilers removed]"I was just talking with someone about how I think Don Quixote might be a novel that serves as one of the earliest examples of meta-fiction. I love stuff like that.
(I just started Chapter 19, incidentally.)
Me too. I've been wondering why it's so funny but don't know. My sister was talking to me yesterday about 'early-modern post-modernism', is this it?
It certainly seems to be the foundation of it, to some degree.
I just got to that part. What I like about it, at least in my version, is that is doesn't actually call out Cervantes by name. Does yours? He is spoken of as their "wise man" whose job it is to memorialize DQ and his deeds, but it doesn't go as far as to name that wise man.
Jason wrote: "What I like about it, at least in my version, is that is doesn't actually call out Cervantes by name. Does yours?"No -- I like that too; "the wise man whose task it will be to write the history of my deeds..."
SO cool.
Bryn wrote: "Me too. I've been wondering why it's so funny but don't know. My sister was talking to me yesterday about 'early-modern post-modernism', is this it?"
I see it as an early post-modern novel, as well. There are certainly many examples of the movement here..
