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when in spain don’t show your brain
Alfonso, the Learned of Castille as he was called. He was the Renaissance Man of the Middle Ages who marshalled the talents of Christians, Jews and Muslims in an incredible outpouring of scholarship and art… If intellectual achievement counted in … Continue reading
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: erasmian touches
Miguel de Cervantes own account of his captivity by Algerian pirates is borne out by a contemporary who, in a history of Algiers written before Don Quixote had made its author famous, tells us that: According to the testimony of … 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
don quixote: new spirit and the old
…Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes showed a marked contrast between the new spirit and the old, something remarkable in that the same divisions can still be discerned in our post-modern times… …Wherever we look, it is there. in politics … Continue reading
sketches of spain: quixotic spirit of disillusion
The two Spains of Miguel de Cervantes and the context for Don Quixote which explains the schizophrenic nature of the character as a reflection of an imperial age coming to a dishonourable end… Charles V abdicated the Spanish throne in … 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
cervantes: spanish fathers and sons
In what sense was Spain, in the years of Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote a schizophrenic society? If we look closely, there is an answer… In Cervantes lifetime, Spain had two very different moods. They were the moods of two … 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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