Cervantes on Don Quixote
By: Emilio Martínez Mata.
Series: Perspectivas hispanicas -- 28
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bern
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9783034303521
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, -- 1547-1616; Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Work titles: Cervantes comenta el Quijote.
Description: Commentary on Don Quixote is as universal as affirmations of the novel?s importance, yet until now no study has examined what Cervantes said about it. In the prologue to the first half of the work (1605) the self-conscious author, in a tongue-in-cheek dialogue with the reader and an unconventional friend, makes a good number of comments on his own book. In the opening chapters of Part 2 (1615), the same sort of witty evaluation continues with remarks by Sancho Panza, Sansón Carrasco and Don Quixote in a lively and extended conversation focused on what has been said about Part 1 since its publication and how the characters feel about those readings. The present study carefully examines and compares these and other self-reflective passages to clarify the work?s successes and failures as interpreted by a privileged reader - the author himself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.