Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes

excerpts read

• Part I: Prologue, Ch. 1–8; 22; 32; 47–48;
• Part II: Ch. 1–4

notes

• First modern novel

• Message
  • Critique of the new age of materialism in Spain
  • Makes fun of intellectual pretentiousness
• Don Quixote
  • Obsession
    • Chivalry novels
• Theme
  • Fantasy shaping one’s perceptions, criticism of taking fiction as reality

questions

• What differentiates valuable from junk literature?