![]() Moreover, Gilbert-Santamaria said, many have argued that Cervantes invented the novel in Don Quixote. Thus, Cervantes’ protagonist goes crazy and thinks he’s a knight involved in adventures right out of that tradition. Foremost among these is the chivalric tradition. Cervantes, he said, was writing a book that simultaneously imitates and makes fun of a number of literary traditions. Many of us know Don Quixote from the musical Man of La Mancha, but Gilbert-Santamaria says that story bears only a surface resemblance to the original. You can almost open the book at random and read a story that’s maybe 20 pages long and you’ll get a good feel for the book.” “The book really looks intimidating,” said Donald Gilbert-Santamaria, the Spanish and Portuguese Studies professor who is coordinating the program. Starting with students reading from the book and ending with a guitar concert, the program promises to show participants why the story has endured so long. That’s why the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Division of the UW’s Romance Languages Department is staging an extended celebration of Don Quixote Dec. Of course, it is more than 1,000 pages long, not to mention being very old. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is one of those books that everybody has heard of but almost nobody has read. The image on the poster for the Don Quixote event comes from an illustrated 19th century edition of the book featuring engravings by Gustave Doré. ![]()
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