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DON QUIXOTE Spanish: [doŋ ki
ˈxote], formerly [doŋ kiˈʃote], fully titled
The Ingenious Gentleman Don
Quixote of La Mancha
(Spanish: El ingenioso
hidalgo Don Quixote de la
Mancha, is a Spanish novel by
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Published in two volumes, 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.
 DON QUIXOTE-PICASSO
It was drawn in 1955, and
Includes the Spanish literary
figure Don Quixote, his
squire Sancho Panza and his
horse Rocinante.
It was published in France as
a celebration of the 350th
anniversary of the original
publication.
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, such as the Bokklubben
World Library collection that cites Don Quixote as authors’ choice for the
“best literary work ever written”.

The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso

Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his
sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring
justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha
The story happened in the 15th
century in Spain. The story is
about Don Quixote’s life. The
writer of the book Cervantes wrote
this story in 1605.In the book Don
Quixote read stories about
chivalry and gets impressed from
them. He thinks that he is a knight
and starts to his journey. In this
story Cervantes tries to take the
reader’s
attention to the literature of his
time which is full of Chivalry
stories, Ideas and class distinction.
Don Quixote thinks that he is a
knight but he is not; he is not
idealized, the people he meets are
not people who are honorable. He
meets real people in real life but
takes them differently. By using
this motifs Cervantes tries to
criticize the society which thinks
that upper class and educated
people are idealized. He thinks this
kind of thinking is out of date
because in real life no one is
perfect and upper class people are
ones who are wicked.
He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho
Panza, as his squire, who often employs a
unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don
Quixote’s rhetorical orations on
antiquated knighthood. 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.
Throughout the novel,
Cervantes uses such literary
techniques as realism,
metatheatre and intertextuality.
It had a major influence on the literary
community, as evidenced by direct
references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three
Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
(1897), as well as the word "quixotic".
Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as
one of the four greatest novels ever written,
along with Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle
Héloïse and Wilhelm Meister
If we think about his life we can
say that he also fought for his
country but in the end he didn’t
have a happy life. He wasn’t
idealized in his country for his
services. It was when he wrote this
book he gained a position in his
society. He fought as the knights
that people read books about but
he was kidnapped and had an
unhappy life. If we emphasize
again that this book is written in
1605,we can say that he is a rebel
and his work is revolutionary.
 the first chapter were
Cervantes said
taken from “The Archive of La
Mancha”, and the rest were
translated from Arabic by the Moorish
author Cide Hamete Benengeli. This
metafictional trick appears to be designed to
give a greater credibility to the text, by
implying that Don Quixote is a real character
and that the story truly occurred several decades
back.
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