As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears at or near the top of lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit. Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. Spain at the time was caught in the tumult of a new age, and Cervantes tried to create in Don Quixote a place to discuss human identity, morality, and art. In addition, she never actually appears in the novel). His “lady” is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farmgirl by the illusion-struck “knight” (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo’s bedraggled old Jewish quarter. John Ormsby).ĭon Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Librivox recording of Don Quixote Volume 1, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl.
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