Article: A Lance for hire: 400 years of Don Quixote.(Literature)

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO called it "the Spanish Bible"; Don Quixote may not be holy writ, but like all great literature it describes us. Cervantes steps out of Spain when its golden age had waned so rapidly as to seem "no more than an illusion" and tarries in ours. We, on the other hand, remain within its thousand pages and are unable to step outside its rather plot-poor scenery in order to establish the vanishing point that would bring it wholly within our historical purview.

I mention the vanishing point advertently, because Cervantes lived at a juncture in European history that had already witnessed not only the Iberian discovery of the globe in the search for ...

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