塞万提斯英文介绍
西班牙伟大作家塞万提斯
西班牙伟大作家塞万提斯塞万提斯（Miguel de Cerantes Saaredra，1547—1616）是文艺复兴时期西班牙小说家、剧作家、诗人，他被誉为是西班牙文学世界里最伟大的作家。
评论家们称他的小说《堂·吉诃德》是文学史上的第一部现代小说，同时也是世界文学的瑰宝之一。
1547年9月26日，塞万提斯诞生于马德里附近的一个小城镇阿尔加拉·台·艾那瑞斯。
他一生的经历，是典型的西班牙人的冒险生涯。
塞万提斯的全名叫米盖尔·台·塞万提斯·萨阿维德拉，他的父亲虽然是一个贫穷的游方郎中，但医术却很精湛。
这位常年走南闯北的医生阅历非常丰富，深深体验到知识对一个人的重要，因此在给一些有藏书的富人看病时，都要借许多书带回家给儿子看。
在少年时代就十分聪慧的塞万提斯读书之快，常让他的父亲大感惊讶，为了能让儿子读到更多的书，他再去给那些有书人家看病时就把儿子带上，他在屋里给人家看病，让儿子在门外看人家的书。
塞万提斯十三四岁时，就以读书最多而闻名于他们那个小城镇。
大量的读书使塞万提斯有了创作的冲动和灵感，他慢慢开始学习写作诗歌。
不久他写的诗歌就在他们那个小城镇里到处流传，以至于他的父亲独自一人去给人家看病时，人家就会问他：“啊，我们的诗人呢？”1566年，塞万提斯一家来到马德里定居。
没有多长时间，塞万提斯就以自己横溢的文学才华在马德里崭露诗名。
当时在马德里享有盛名的人文主义学者胡安·洛贝斯·台·沃约斯读到塞万提斯的诗以后，亲自登门拜访，并把这位年仅19岁的青年招进自己开办的学校里学习。
在这所学校里，塞万提斯的知识得到了最大的充实，并在沃约斯人文主义思想的影响下，写出了许多优美的诗篇，被传诵一时。
1569年冬天，塞万提斯作为西班牙大主教的一名侍从，随从大主教来到意大利罗马。
在陪同大主教游历意大利许多文化名城时，塞万提斯写下了很多赞美意大利的诗篇。
塞万提斯传记(英文版)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de:The grandmaster of Spanish literature and the father of the modern novel. Cervantes is believed to have been born in 1547 in the town of Alcaláde Hénares. His life itself reads like an adventure novel. Cervantes became a soldier in Italy in 1570 and fought in the Battle of Lepanto (1571). He was injured in this battle and lost the use of his left hand. While attempting to sail back to Spain in 1575, Cervantes was taken prisoner by Greek pirates and taken to Algiers. Miguel attempted to escape unsuccessfully three times, before he was finally ransomed. After returning to Spain, he struggled to make a living writing and was unhappily married to Catalina de Salazar y Palacios. Cervantes was jailed at least two times for debt and falsifying bookkeeping records. He did not achieve success until later in life. In fact his most productive and successful period was from around 1606 until his death in 1616.Don Quixote was released in two "installments" beginning in 1605. It met with immediate success and secured his position as the writer of one of the greatest novels in history. Don Quixote is a voluminous work which satirized the romantic notions of this period, chivalric novels, as well as Spanish society. It effectively blends humor, adventure and romance with an exploration of idealism versus realism. Its primary characters (Don Quixote and Sancho Panza) have achieved immortality and the novel has served as inspiration for many subsequent works of art, including musicals, plays and painting.Cervantes wrote his Novelas Ejemplares (Exemplary Stories,1613) concurrently with Don Quixote and this is the only other work which I have been able to find translated into English. They are a delightful collection of novellas primarily in the style of the picaresque novel. His first novel was entitled La Galatea (1585), but it was not well received. Although Cervantes is primarily associated with the novel, he also produced several collections of poetry and several plays. Several of these can be found in various collections of Spanish prose and drama.Miguel de Cervantes, born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547, was the son of a surgeon who presented himself as a nobleman, although Cervantes's mother seems to have been a descendant of Jewish converts to Christianity. Little is known of his early years. Four poems published in Madrid by his teacher, the humanist López de Hoyos, mark his literary début, punctuated by his sudden departure for Rome, where he resided for several months. In 1571 he fought valiantly at Lepanto, where he was wounded in his left hand by a harquebus shot. The following year he took part in Juan of Austria's campaigns in Navarino, Corfu, and Tunis. Returning to Spain by sea, he fell into the hands of Algerian corsairs. After five years spent as a slave in Algiers, and four unsuccessful escape attempts, he was ransomed by the Trinitarians and returned to his family in Madrid. In 1585, a few months after his marriage to Catalina de Salazar, twenty-two years younger than he, Cervantes published a pastoral novel, La Galatea, at the same time that some of his plays, now lost except for El trato de argel and El cerco de Numancia, were playing on the stages of Madrid. Two years later he left for Andalusia, which he traversed for ten years, first as a purveyor for the Invencible Armada and later as a tax collector. As a result of money problems with the government, Cervantes was thrown into jail in Seville in 1597; but in 1605 he was in Valladolid, then seat of the government, just when the immediate success of the first part of his Don Quixote, published in Madrid, signaled his return to the literary world. In 1607, he settled in Madrd justafter the return there of the monarch Philip III. During the last nine years of his life, in spite of deaths in the family and personal setbacks, Cervantes solidified his reputation as a writer. He published the Novelas ejemplares in 1613, the Viaje del Parnaso in 1614, and in 1615, the Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses and the second part of Don Quixote, a year after the mysterious Avellaneda had published his apocryphal sequel to the novel. At the same time, Cervantes continued working on Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, which he completed three days before his death on April 22, 1616, and which appeared posthumously in January 1617.What we know of Cervantes's life is the result of a long series of inquiries begun during the first three decades of the seventeenth century. But the most significant contributions have been those of scholars in the early part of this century, especially Cristóbal Pérez Pastor. The documents that have been published through their efforts come from public, parochial, and notarial archives, and they generally refer to Cervantes's captivity, the posts that he occupied in Andalusia, and certain other important events in his life. Few of these documents, however, cast any light on his life as a writer, much less on his personality. We need a methodical commentary on these documents to bring up to date the sketch which James Fitzmaurice Kelly published in Oxford in 1917: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; reseña documentada de su vida. We also need a critical biography worthy of the name. Luis Astrana Marín's big book Vida ejemplar y heroica de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Madrid, 1948-1958, 7 vols.) suffers from a less-than-solid methodology as well as a number of personal biases. Still it contains a considerable amount of information and so remains an essential work of reference. Rosa Rossi's essay Escuchar a Cervantes (Valladolid, 1988) attempts to do away with the idealized portrait of Cervantes by interpreting his life as the confluence of his supposed Jewish origins and his latent homosexual tendencies. Certain recent biographers--such as Andrés Trapiello (Las vidas de Cervantes, Barcelona, 1993) and, not without a hint of scandal, Fernando Arrabal (Un esclavo llamado Cervantes, Paris and Madrid, 1996)--have revived the tradition of romanticized biographies in which the biographer's personality obliterates that of the writer whose life is the supposed subject.The biography written by the author of this note (Jean Canavaggio, Cervantès, revised and amplified edition, Paris: Fayard, 1997) differs from its predecessors in its pretentions. Unlike other works, it does not attempt to plumb the depths of the irrational in order to decipher the symbolism that Cervantes's fiction presumably contains. Rather than "explain" Cervantes, a man who disappeared almost four centuries ago and whose creation has taken on a life of its own, this biography aspires to "tell his story" better. We must first establish with all the necessary rigor what is actually known of Cervantes's actions and experiences, and we must exclude the legends, such as his having studied at the Jesuit school in Seville or his having composed the Quixote while in prison. Then Cervantes, who was an obscure participant in a heroic adventure, a lucid observer of a time of doubt and crisis, and a very personal interpreter of Spain at a crucial moment in its history, must be placed in his own milieu and his own time, better known now because of the work of recent historians. We must do our best to find that man. As we trace this life which has become a destiny that we attempt to render comprehensible, the book offers us a likely profile of a figure who is not the same individual that his friends and family knew, nor the "rare genius" whose profile Cervantes himself created, nor the figure which, since his death, has arisen from a series of myths which some day ought to be looked into. In other words, we are looking for the missingprofile which we assign to the secret narrator hidden behind his masks, this absent one who is always present, whose voice is his alone and, through the magic of his writing, is always recognizable even among a thousand othersStudents will understand the following:. Discuss how Miguel de Cervantes’ life is mirrored in Don Quixote’s.2. Explain how the eight people shown in the introduction refused to abandon their dreams despite popular sentiment that those dreams were unattainable. (Amelia Earhart, Nelson Mandela, women suffragettes, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Theresa)3. At the end of Cervantes’ sequel, the Knight of the White Mo on, Sampson Curasco, forces Don Quixote to give up his fantasies “for his own good.” Discuss why people like Curasco feel the need to destroy the illusions and dreams of those who do not subscribe to a practical approach to life.To Dream the Impossible DreamDon Quixote might be seen as not simply crazy in his refusal to see things as they really are but more like a person who wants to accomplish a greater good and so refuses to compromise his ideals. Examples of such people include Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. Ask students to discuss (with examples and other evidence) whether or not they think Quixote deserves to be put in the company of real-world idealists or is merely delusional.Tackling the IssuesAsk the class to discuss solutions to an issue that plagues contemporary society at large or just your community—for example, homelessness, violence, environmental degradation, hunger. Half the class should mention idealistic solutions to the chosen issue; the other half should mention only realistic approaches to solving the problem. See if, in listening to both sides, someone can come up with a proposal that is both realistic and unconventional—an idea that hasn’t been tried yet.Man of La Mancha is not the easiest of constructs: it features a play within a play, with a third layer thown in for good measure. Cervantes and an associate are brought to prison to await a hearing with the Inquisition. He is set upon by the prisoners, who decide to hold a mock trial in order to find him guilty and steal all his possessions (including a package he seems to value greatly). Cervantes presents a play as his defense, to give the "jury" insight into the "crimes" of which they acuse him. They agree and become actors in his play. Cervantes plays Alhonso Quiana, a man who has set his own reality aside and become Don Quixote De La Mancha. Man of La Mancha simultaneously tracks the experiences of the three men (Cervantes, Quiana, and Quixote), focusing mostly upon Quixote. It can be confusing at first exposure, but with this framework in mind to lend additional clarity -- it can be transformational. Please seek it out.。
塞万提斯
主人公：堂吉诃德
• 因爱看骑士小说，患有游侠狂。当他不接触骑士 小说的时候，他的思想清醒，见解高明，一接触 到骑士道，就行动疯癫，闹出很多笑话。临终前 醒悟，告诫亲人不要读骑士小说。侄女如果要嫁 人，一定要嫁给从未读过骑士小说的人，否则不 能继承遗产。 • 性格的内在矛盾是形成他的喜剧性格的根源。
西班牙文学
西班牙文艺复兴在法国之后得到发展，16世纪后 半期达到繁荣。
• 西班牙文学在16世纪得到发展，主要成就 就是小说和戏剧。小说方面创造了新体裁 流浪汉小说。
塞万提斯
• 塞万提斯（Cerwantes 1547-1616)西班牙 文艺复兴时期小说家、戏剧家、诗人、西 班牙作家中在国际声望最高，影响最大的 作家。
• 1605年，《堂吉诃德》第一部出版，空前成功。一年内 再版六次，十年内再版十余次，轰动西班牙。 • 而此时他依然总有官司，1605年入狱，因为------一早开 门发现一个受伤的人，好心的把他拖入家里，没想到这人 一会就死了，塞万提斯成了嫌疑犯。 • 1615年，出版《堂吉诃德》第二部。《八出戏剧和八出 幕间短剧集》。盛名之下，依然贫穷，地位低下。
桑丘
• 堂吉诃德的仆人。邻居。 • 性格与堂吉诃德相反。讲求实际，聪明能 干，性格乐观。他既是堂吉诃德的陪衬人 物，又是小说的另一主人公。他的朴实厚 道显出了一股傻劲，在小说中被人看做一 个傻子。
主题：表面上是批判了骑士小说，实际上是批判了一切视 理想为虚无的庸人。
• 拜伦：“《堂吉诃德》是一个令人伤感的故事，它越是令 人发笑，则越使人感到难过。这位英雄是主持正义的，制 服坏人是他的唯一宗旨。正是那些美德使他发了疯。” • 别林斯基：“在欧洲所有一切著名文学作品中，把严肃和 滑稽、悲剧性和喜剧性、生活中的琐屑庸俗与伟大美丽结 合得如此水乳交融—这样的范例仅见于塞万提斯的《堂吉 诃德》。” • 朱光潜：“一个是可笑的理想主义者，一个是可笑的实用 主义者。”
塞万提斯_精品文档
塞万提斯塞万提斯（Miguel de Cervantes），是西班牙文学史上最具影响力的作家之一。
他以他的作品《堂吉诃德》而享誉世界。
塞万提斯的文学才华、独特的写作风格以及对人性的深刻洞察力使他的作品流传至今，被誉为西班牙文学巨匠。
故事的创作灵感塞万提斯生于1547年，出生地点在西班牙的阿尔卡拉德韦纳，他的父母是贵族世家的一员。
然而，他的家庭并不富裕。
在塞万提斯年轻的时候，西班牙正处于花样年华，大量财富涌入国家，也带来了繁荣的文化和艺术。
塞万提斯对戏剧、音乐和文学有着极大的兴趣，渴望成为一个作家。
然而，在创作职业道路上，塞万提斯面临着无尽的挑战。
他在军队服役了数年，还曾多次尝试创业，但都以失败告终。
这些挫折和困难塑造了他独特的写作风格和主题选择。
通过《堂吉诃德》，塞万提斯成功地表达了他对人性的思考，以及对社会弊端和现实主义的揭示。
《堂吉诃德》的创作历程《堂吉诃德》是塞万提斯最著名的作品，也是西班牙文学史上最重要的作品之一。
这部小说的创作历时多年，共分为两卷。
第一卷出版于1605年，第二卷于1615年问世。
《堂吉诃德》讲述了一个普通贵族者堂吉诃德患了疯狂的妄想症后，他自称成为骑士-冒险家，被女人痴迷，唯妄想对抗邪恶和不公正。
小说以幽默、讽刺和丰富的想象力描绘了堂吉诃德的冒险故事，同时也对西班牙社会及人性弊端进行了深刻的剖析。
小说的成功和影响《堂吉诃德》问世后，立即引起轰动，迅速成为畅销书。
塞万提斯通过堂吉诃德这一形象，讽刺了贵族社会的虚伪和狂妄，揭示人性的弱点和对欲望的追求。
这部小说被视为对封建社会及西班牙黄金时代的讽刺和批评。
它的深刻见解和对人性的洞察力深深打动了读者，对世界文学产生了广泛的影响。
《堂吉诃德》对后世文学的影响是深远的。
它开创了现代小说的先河，以其新颖的结构、丰富的人物塑造和主题的多元性，影响了许多作家和文化人。
除了西班牙，它还在全世界范围内产生了广泛的影响，被翻译成多种语言，并且在各种艺术形式中被演绎。
塞万提斯
喜剧形象堂吉诃德——喜剧性动作、喜剧性语言 喜剧性动作、 喜剧形象堂吉诃德 喜剧性动作
“古人所谓黄金时代真是幸福的年代、幸福的世纪！这 不是因为我们黑铁时代视为至宝的黄金，在那个幸运的 时代能不劳而获；只为那时候的人还不懂‘你的’和 ‘我的’之分。在那个时代，东西都归公有”。 “古代还没有魔鬼的枪炮行凶逞暴，那真是幸福啊！谁 首先制造这种魔鬼传授的武器，我相信他准在地狱受 罪”。认为“拿枪杆子的目标是和平；这是人类在这个 世界上所能企望的最大幸福”，“民主国家的自卫、王 国的存在、城市的保障、公路的安全、海上盗寇的肃清， 全靠枪杆子”。
喜剧性动作
“种种麻烦他都耐心忍受，只要不割断他系住 头盔的带子”。 “他急急忙忙褪下裤子，脱得精光，只剩一件 衬衫，然后不管三七二十一，先踊身跳跃两次， 又两番头在下、脚在上倒竖蜻蜓……桑丘忙揽 住马缰回转身，免得再看见第二眼”。
心理动作的喜剧性
“他心里打着稿子，拟出 了好些名字，又撇开不 要，又添拟，又取消， 又重拟。最后他决定为 它取名‘驽骍难得’觉 得这个名字高贵、响亮， 而且表明它从前是一匹 驽马，现在却稀世难 得”。
与桑丘的对照
堂吉诃德的喜剧性格在与桑丘的对照中突现 出来。桑丘是一个农民，他既有农民阶级自私 胆小贪小利的缺点，又有劳动人民朴实善良、 宽容公正的品德。他讲求实际，聪明能干，性 格乐观。他既是堂吉诃德的陪衬人物，又是小 说的另一主人公，堂吉诃德用骑士方式不能实 现的理想，在桑丘充当总督的行动中得以实现。 桑丘的朴实厚道显出一股子傻劲，在小说中他 常被人们看作一个傻子。
喜剧性冲突
堂吉诃德在游侠狂发作时，头脑中积存下来的 有关骑士小说的潜意识变成幻觉出现在眼前， 他把现实环境中的人与物当作幻觉现象，抱着 锄强扶弱、济困救贫的崇高理想与之斗争，构 成了人与幻觉现象的喜剧性冲突。这种冲突时 一连串的发疯胡闹，堂吉诃德把风车当巨人， 客店当堡垒，羊群当军队，酒袋当巨人，磨坊 当城堡，道具当敌人等，单枪匹马，乱砍乱杀 一气。
塞万提斯小传
塞万提斯小传塞万提斯（MigueldeCervantesSaavedra，1547年—1616年），西班牙小说家、剧作家、诗人。
1547年9月29日出生，1616年4月22日在马德里逝世。
他被认为是西班牙文学世界里最伟大的作家。
评论家们称他的小说《堂吉诃德》是文学史上的第一部现代小说，同时也是世界文学的瑰宝之一。
◆生平◆童年据推测塞万提斯出生于马德里附近的阿尔卡拉·德·埃纳雷斯城（es:AlcaládeHenares）。
虽然依据取圣名的传统，他可能在9月29日——庆祝天使长圣·米格尔诞生的节日那天出生，其确切日期却已无从考证。
1547年10月9日塞万提斯在阿尔卡拉的圣塔玛丽亚·马约尔教堂接受洗礼。
他的父亲叫做罗德里格·德·塞万提斯，科尔多瓦人和加利西亚人的后代。
他是位外科医生，这在当时是一种更相当于现在的护理员之类的职业。
据阿梅里克·卡斯特罗（AméricoCastro）、丹尼尔·爱伊森伯格（DanielEisenberg）等塞万提斯学家指出，他父亲有两个家族的血统。
相反的，JeanCanavaggio坚称“这并未经证实”。
他的母亲名叫莱昂诺尔·德·科尔蒂纳斯·桑切斯（LeonordeCortinasSánchez）。
后人除了知道她很可能是皈依基督教的犹太人的后代外，其余一无所知。
他的兄弟姐妹分别为安德烈斯（1543）、安德艾阿（1544）、路易萨（1546）——她后来成了修道院院长、罗德里格（1550）——他作为士兵同塞万提斯一起在阿尔及尔被俘、马格达莱娜（1554）以及胡安——他只在他父亲的遗嘱里才被提及。
要注意的是塞万提斯的姓氏“萨维德拉”没有在任何关于他的早期文献中出现，他的兄弟姐妹也没有一个使用它。
他出生时的名字应该是“米格尔·德·塞万提斯·柯尔提那斯”（MigueldeCervantesCortinas）。
塞万提斯
塞万提斯· 萨维德拉 · 塞万提斯国际艺术节 （Cervantes Internatinal Art Festival）
塞万提斯国际艺术节每年在墨西哥文化名城瓜纳华 托举行一次，它是世界上最重要的艺术节之一，目 的是纪念在西班牙语言方面作出贡献的人。 1953年2月，瓜纳华托的一些教师、学生和家庭主 妇首次聚集在一起，在广场上表演西班牙文学家塞 万提斯的剧作。以后，每年春季或秋季，这种民间 演出成为该市的传统。1973年，由当时的墨西哥总 统埃切维利亚建议，正式创立了国际塞万提斯节。 这一节日活动繁荣了墨西哥的文化艺术，推动了各 国间的文化交流，并促进了墨西哥旅游业的发展。
堂吉诃德的形象
疯子、书呆子：大战风车、羊群
对生活的想象来源于小说阅读
理想主义者：知其不可为而为之
知识分子的精神偶像（屠格涅夫）
检验读者的人性
被捉弄、被戏耍，含泪的笑（纳博科夫）
唐吉诃德梦想中的骏马
第31章 堂吉诃德和侍从桑丘· 潘沙的 趣谈以及其他事情。
堂吉诃德说：“你这些话，我听来都还满意。说下去吧。你去的时 候，那位绝世美人在干什么呢？准在为我这个被她俘虏的骑士穿 珠子，或者用金线绣花吧？” 桑丘说：“不是的；她正在她家后院里簸两个阿内咖的麦子。” 堂吉诃德说：“那你可以拿稳，麦粒儿经过她的手，准变成一颗颗 珍珠。朋友，你瞧了那麦子吗？是白的还是黑的？” 桑丘说：“是黄的。” 堂吉诃德说：“我可以向你保证，麦子经她簸过，做出来准是雪白 的面包，决没有错。你再讲下去吧。你把信交给她，她拿来亲吻 没有？把信顶在头上了吗？她行了什么相应的礼节来迎接我那封 信呢？她是怎么办的？”
塞万提斯· 萨维德拉 - 塞万提斯奖 （Premio Miguel de Cervantes简称 Premio Cervantes），
【名人故事】塞万提斯的简介故事
【名人故事】塞万提斯的简介、故事简介：塞万提斯（Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra，1547年－1616年）是文艺复兴时期西班牙小说家、剧作家、诗人，1547年9月29日出生，1616年4月23日在马德里逝世。
他被誉为是西班牙文学世界里最伟大的作家。
评论家们称他的小说《堂吉诃德》是文学史上的第一部现代小说，同时也是世界文学的瑰宝之一。
故事：文艺复兴时期西班牙有一位大名鼎鼎的文学家塞万提斯的遇盗，却比较奇特，既不是钱物被盗，也不是机密被盗，而是“塞万提斯”自己被盗了。
塞万提斯在1604年时因《唐·吉诃德》的出版而一举成名。
由于《唐·吉诃德》风行一时，几个星期之内，就出现了三个盗印的版本；以后，在葡萄牙、比利时、法国都出现了类似的情况。
这些盗印者当然不会按照出版规定付给作者报酬；不过，长期习惯于清贫生活的塞万提斯，只要自己的作品能有更多的人阅读，对于这样的情况，也并不计较。
如果说盗印了《唐·吉诃德》没有使塞万提斯激怒的话，那么盗用了他的大名来招摇撞骗，却使一向乐观开朗的塞万提斯也无法克制了。
事情的经过是这样的：塞万提斯在出版《唐·吉诃德》第一部以后，没有续写第二部，却转而从事诗歌、戏剧和短篇小说的写作，当然他在这些方面也是很出色的。
时光似流水，一眨眼就是十年。
在这整整十年期间，由于他的《唐·吉诃德》对封建制度和宫廷贵族的讽刺，对骑士小说作者的嘲笑和在艺术上的成功而遭致同行的嫉妒，那些对他不满与憎恨的人，总想找一个机会对他进行打击报复。
1614年，在塞万提斯的《唐·吉诃德》第二部已写到五十九章时，他偶然发现了一部伪造的《唐·吉诃德》第二部，那是塔拉哥纳省一批仇恨他的贵族搞的鬼。
人生的坎坷，对于饱经忧患的塞万提斯来说，已是司空见惯；但这次的打击，却比他早年与上耳其人作战而使左手致残的打击还大，比他遭到海盗的袭击被卖在阿尔及利亚作奴隶的打击还大，比他在国内作税收员因帐目不清而被捕入狱的打击还大，因为这时他已是68岁的老人了，他的一生的全部心血都凝结在他的《唐·吉诃德》上面。
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Life of Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet 1547-1616
Don Quixote
Term “quixotic”—a person who is quixotic is in the grip of misguided idealism. Conflict between idealism and realism. Illusion vs. Reality
Don Quixote as Parody
Began as a parody of romance stories popular in Cervantes’ time. Books of chivalry.—Star crossed lovers—a knight and his fair lady. Parody—a magnification of the characteristics of a particular style to the point at which its absurdity becomes unmistakable. Satire may be more appropriate term. Aims to expose an objeccensure with implicit reference to a higher standard of conduct
Satire
“Genre of comedy directed at ridiculing human foibles and vices, such as vanity, hypocrisy, stupidity, and greed.” Differs from pure comedy in that its aim is not simply to evoke laughter, but to expose and censure such faults, often with the aim of correcting them.” (Hamilton, Sharon. Essential Literary Terms)
(Hamilton, Sharon. Essential Literary Terms)
Types of satire
Juvenalian satire—harsh and censorious, bitterly condemning vices and foibles and inciting the audience to feelings of indignation and even disgust. (Pudd’nhead Wilson, “A Modest Proposal”
Renaissance in Spain
Cervantes was born at a time when Spain was richest, most powerful nation in Europe. Time of exploration. Charles I, king of Spain, was most powerful man in Europe. An inspiring king—known for his bravery in battle
(Hamilton, Sharon. Essential Literary Terms)
Don Quixote
First novel. First to create fully developed characters. Lively dialogue. Hero who sets out to reinvent his own identity. Buddy genre—Don Quixote and Sancho
Magical Realism
“Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before” Margaret Halsey, U.S. novelist
Types of satire
Horatian satire—tolerant and urbane, indulgently mocking faults with the aim of evoking wry amusement rather than repulsion or indignation in the audience. (“Rape of the Lock,” “Don Juan,” “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”)
Popularity of Don Quixote
Novel becomes quite popular. Read and enjoyed by all ages. No royalty for works. Pirated copies distributed Other writers begin using DQ as a character. Cervantes writes second part of DQ, kills off main character. Even though Cervantes became popular and famous, he died in poverty in April 1616.