Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes
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Author: Miguel de CervantesEdition: Hardcover
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Unknown); Spanish (Published)
Published: 2004-11
ISBN: 8420467286
Number of pages: 1360
Publisher: Alfaguara
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Summary: 5 Stars
400 years ago the first part of this book was written. Surely much people knows it deals with a fool man of La Mancha, truly a not very wealthy region of central south Spain, not far from Madrid.Madness of Don Quijote is a fiction to defy social barriers and speaks truth, forbidden to sane persons, as Cervantes was an experienced man when he wrote his work: he has had been soldier, lover, delinquent, and proved chance also in writing theatre and poetry, but here he knocked against another supreme master: Lope de Vega, who had won the taste of people with his comedies.
Worth of Don Quijote are many, between these, is evident the showing of the Spanish society in times this country was a great empire, but Cervantes is yet aware of the first signs of decadence: the true "hidalgos" were a class of men not poor nor rich, but they, as Don Quijote, never worked, in a time English or Dutch rural owners and firsts scientist were yet showing signs of the industrial society. In effect, paradoxically, the defeat of Moors in the Reconquista and the discovery of America with his treasures of gold and silver accustomed these cavaliers and hidalgos only to hunting, administering with laziness his properties and reading books as those that turned mad to Alonso Quijano and converted him in Don Quijote, as they used only to make war, and so, heavy agricultural work was in hands of "moriscos" (moors falsely converted to Christianism, and the intellectual work was a task own of Jewish people. The expulsion of both by Catholic kings of Spain proved to be fatal in only a century with a great decadence.
In a pure literary order of Spanish language and conception, Don Quijote is a the big precedent of modern novel, inexistent until there.
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