Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Published in 1605 and then 1615, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is often called the first modern novel in the West. Alonso Quijano, a minor nobleman from La Mancha, decides he is a knight errant and rides out to fight windmills he takes for giants.
The book is far more than a parody of chivalric romance. It invents a new way of telling a story: characters who change, doubt that never lifts, humor and depth at the same time. Cervantes lays the groundwork for the psychological novel and for fiction that comments on itself.
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- 2Cervantes: a life of adventure and the birth of the novel
- 3The founding pair: the Knight and the Squire
- 4Metafiction and the play of realities
- 5Legacy: from quixotism to a universal inheritance
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