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Article: Don Quixote's new world of language.
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- Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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WHAT IS IT THAT has given Cervantes' burlesque history of one particularly Ingenious Hidalgo its irresistible magnetic pull? Such a question is likely to have as many answers as Don Quixote has had admirers. Yet, major differences in scholarly interest and critical conviction notwithstanding, a very large number of readers seem to agree that one secret to this book's longevity can be found in its extraordinary way with language. (1)
Such was the experience of the book's very first readers, to judge from the response to Don Quixote's published history related in the third chapter of Part II. Celebrating in jest what is clearly also meant in earnest, Sansón ...