![]() ![]() As I haveremarked elsewhere, Shakespeare pragmatically teaches us how to talk toourselves, while Cervantes instructs us how to talk to one another. Perhaps Cervantes’s masterwork isthe central book of the last half-millennium, since all the greater novelistsare as much Don Quixote’s children as they are Shakespeare’s. There is no similar singular eminence in French: Rabelais,Montaigne, Molière, and Racine vie with Victor Hugo, Baudelaire,Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust. José Ortega y Gasset regards Don Quixote as a hero for whom realityis a challenge to reform, while my own, concluding essay insists that theDon’s is a literary madness, and so in itself represents a triumph ofCervantes’s comic wisdom.ĭon Quixote is to the Spanish language what Shakespeare is to English,Dante to Italian, and Goethe to German: the glory of that particularvernacular. In Mark Van Doren’s view, the Don’s quest is as realistic as it is comic,while Harry Levin emphasizes the ambiguous relations between words anddeeds in the book. Jorge Luis Borges, in a brilliant parody, gives us the imaginary PierreMenard as the author of Don Quixote, which is to say that belatedly we allshare in the work’s authorship. Auden sees Quixote as a fool-for-Christ, after whichthe novelist Vladimir Nabokov affirms the aestheticism of the book’sfrequent cruelties. Miguel de Unamuno begins the chronological sequence of essays withhis profound meditation upon Don Quixote’s will to survive, after which thegreat novelist Thomas Mann voyages with Cervantes, in order to revealsome of the complex ironies of Don Quixote.įranz Kafka’s parable teaches us that Sancho Panza is the poet, and theDon only Sancho’s daemon or creation, while Erich Auerbach argues for thebook’s “continuous gaiety.” My Introduction centers upon the authenticity of dialogue between Sanchoand the Don, who change one another through mutual listening. You can find Chelsea House on the World Wide Web atĬontributing Editor: Mirjana KalezicProduced by: Robert Gerson Publisher’s Services, Santa Barbara, CA Please call our Special SalesDepartment in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. D67 2000863'.3-dc21 00-060349Ĭhelsea House books are available at special discounts whenpurchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations,institutions, or sales promotions. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616. Includes bibliographical references.ISBN 0-7910-5922-7 (alk. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dataĭon Quixote: modern critical interpretations / editor, Harold Bloom. ![]() ![]() For more information contact:Ĭhelsea HouseAn imprint of Infobase Publishing132 West 31st StreetNew York NY 10001 No part of this publication may be reproducedor utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,including photocopying, recording, or by any information storageor retrieval systems, without permission in writing from thepublisher. ManPride and PrejudiceThe Red Badge of CourageThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerRomeo and JulietThe Scarlet LetterA Scholarly Look at the Diary ofĪnne FrankA Separate PeaceSlaughterhouse FiveSong of SolomonThe SonnetsThe Sound and the FuryThe StrangerA Streetcar Named DesireSulaThe Sun Also RisesA Tale of Two CitiesThe Tales of PoeThe TempestTess of the D’UrbervillesTheir Eyes Were Watching GodTo Kill a MockingbirdUlyssesWaiting for GodotWaldenThe Waste LandWuthering Heightsīloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Don QuixoteĪll rights reserved. ![]() MacbethThe Merchant of VeniceThe MetamorphosisA Midsummer Night’s DreamMoby-DickMy ÁntoniaNative SonNight1984The OdysseyOedipus RexThe Old Man and the SeaOthelloParadise LostThe Pardoner’s TaleA Portrait of the Artist as a Young The Scrivener, and Other TalesThe Bluest EyeThe Catcher in the RyeCatch-22The Color PurpleCrime and PunishmentThe CrucibleDaisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw,Īnd Other TalesDavid CopperfieldDeath of a SalesmanThe Divine ComedyDon QuixoteDublinersEmmaFahrenheit 451A Farewell to ArmsFrankensteinThe General Prologue to theĬanterbury TalesThe Glass MenagerieThe Grapes of WrathGreat ExpectationsThe Great GatsbyGulliver’s TravelsHamletThe Handmaid’s TaleHeart of DarknessI Know Why the Caged Bird SingsThe IliadThe Interpretation of DreamsInvisible ManJane EyreJulius CaesarKing LearLong Day’s Journey into NightLord JimLord of the FliesThe Lord of the Rings Adventures of Huckleberry FinnAll Quiet on the Western FrontAnimal FarmBelovedBeowulfBilly Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby ![]()
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