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quixote:a foot in either world
…Caught between a heroic past and a future of disillusion. The Don Quixote of Miguel de Cervantes… For of course Don Quixote is Cervantes. This is well pointed out. One of the sources of Don Quixote’s power to move us … Continue reading
don quixote: last twilight of the heroic age
It was this sudden shift, from one generation of Spanish life, from heroic tension to empty disillusion, that was also the background to Miguel de Cervantes own life, which formed the background to Don Quixote. … Cervantes, in a sense, … Continue reading
spain of cervantes: life as trashy novelette
In Miguel de Cervantes’s lifetime, Spain had two very different moods…. …It was this mood of exaltation in the time of the Emperor, Charles V, which found its popular expression in the famous “romances of chivalry.” Throughout the sixteenth-century, but … Continue reading
don quixote: heroism and disillusion
…For as the book progresses, so does the world of make believe. The barber and the curate, who set out to cure Don Quixote’s follies, end by becoming participants in it, actors in his imaginary history. Sancho Panza starts talking … Continue reading
quixotic blends of madness
The two Spains of Don Quixote: the dark declining Spain of his adult years and the glorious chivalric land of his youth… …As each book is identified, they all remember it, discuss its merits, argue about its fate; and half … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes Don Quixote, Don Quixote, Gustave Dore, Miguel de Cervantes
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don quixote: unhinged in spain
Two Spains of Don Quixote. Cervantes, like his hero, stood with one foot in the dark declining Spain of his adult years and one in the glorious chivalric land of his youth…. The only good book in Spanish literature, said … Continue reading
reviving common sense
The decline of common sense. And why we might wish to revive it. …Prideful people, understandably, dislike serving on juries, for common sense is a fierce humbler of pride and egotism. It tells the person with a theory that they … Continue reading
“we don’t talk we hold forth”
They evoke a memory here, a recognition there, of the kind of overarticulate, overemotional young people who excitedly theorize about the universe and themselves, who forever question what they are saying and then question the question itself, who sound as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, David Leitch, Don Quixote, Harold Bloom, Henry Grunwald, J.D. Salinger, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismer, Oswald Achenbach, seymour krim, Warren French, William Weigand
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common non-sensical: count your spoons
Common sense is usually said to be sturdy, but in fact it has been faring badly ever since the scientific revolution began. It is plain, common sense declared in those days, that the sun revolves around the earth. Wrong said … Continue reading
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