Don Quixote...

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...a novel that showed up on several Top 10 lists here
not so long ago, subject of:

Don Quixote at 400: Still Conquering Hearts
By ILAN STAVANS

[...]Some scholars call Don Quixote the first modern
novel, a bildungsroman that traces the arch of its
protagonist's life and the inner transformation to
which it gives room. In the spirit of Erasmus of
Rotterdam's In Praise of Folly, parody reinforces the
divide between the life of the mind and the strictures
of society. Others stress the novel's irony, the
multiple voices and blurring of fiction and reality --
the latter an aspect that Gabriel Garc&iacutea Márquez
would pay tribute to in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Don Quixote is one of the first characters to comment
on his own readers ("for me alone was Don Quixote
born," Cervantes writes in the second book, in
response to the publication of the sham version); he
is caught at the turning point of the Enlightenment,
between the secular and the religious, reason and
belief. Detractors argue that Cervantes is a careless
stylist and a clumsy plot-builder, pointing out the
fractured nature of the novel, the endless
repetitions. [...] 

...read it all: 
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?%20id=q6qt7a4j9j5qaduv4gepuq709ecg3kou




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