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Article: Sancho as a thief of time and art: Ovid's Fasti and Cervantes' Don Quixote 2.(THE 2007 JOSEPHINE WATERS BENNETT LECTURE)(Author abstract)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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1. INTRODUCTION
Over the years, critics have been puzzled by the impossible chronology and the instability of time in Cervantes' Don Quixote. (1) As Luis A. Murillo has noted, the novel from its inception is implicated in humanity's "prepossession with the passage of time and its measurement, objective or subjective." (2) Even before Don Quixote, the Lazarillo de Tormes, the first Spanish picaresque, carefully expounds the rogue's case using linear time, accelerating its pace as the protagonist passes from innocence to experience. Indeed, the novel ends with the presence of Emperor Charles V in Toledo in 1538-39, a festive occasion that ironically compares with ...
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