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DON QUIXOTE
CREATED BY:
Miguel de Cervantes
VOICED BY:
Fernando Fernán Gómez
AS SEEN IN:
'Don Quixote'
From Wikipedia:
The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, who reads too many
chivalric novels, and sets out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote.
He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza as his squire, who frequently deals
with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood with a unique
Earthy wit. He is met by the world as it is, initiating themes like
Intertextuality, Realism, Metatheatre and Literary Representation.
Published in
two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most
influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire
Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one
of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the
greatest works of fiction ever published. In one such list, Don Quixote was
cited as the "best literary work ever written".
Don Quixote, a Spanish gentleman of La Mancha Alonso Quijano (or Quesada, or Quijada), who believes himself and acts as a knight-errant as described in various medieval books of chivalry, riding his horse Rocinante.
Alonso Quijano, the protagonist of the novel, is a retired country gentleman nearing fifty years of age, living in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and housekeeper. While mostly a rational man of sound reason, his reading of books of chivalry in excess has had a profound effect on him, leading to the distortion of his perception and the wavering of his mental faculties. In essence, he believes every word of these books of chivalry to be true though, for the most part, the content of these books is clearly fiction. Otherwise, his wits, in regards to everything other than chivalry, are intact. He decides to go out as a knight-errant in search of adventure. He dons an old suit of armour, renames himself "Don Quixote de la Mancha," and names his skinny horse "Rocinante". He designates a neighboring farm girl as his lady love, renaming her Dulcinea del Toboso, while she knows nothing about this.
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