First Sentence
*generally known by heart by Spanish native speakers and used as an expression
*place-name erased by the creative will of the author - against traditional formulas
*non-place. left blank.
*his home is the origin and destination
la mancha = spot, stain
Chapter 6
*literary genealogy
*religious books missing
*no classics
*chivalry romances out of style
*Cervantes in library - blurring the distinction between fiction and reality
*the irony of the priest and the barber
*niece's explanation of what happened to library (burning books bad?)
*familiar becomes unfamiliar
Chapters 2 and 3
Chapters 4 and 5
*leaves at dawn, beginning of a new day
*anticipates posterity, writing instructions with references to classics
*the inn (snapshot of society)
*July, fish on Fridays (realism)
*transforms reality - lowest of lowest people
*object of amusement
*lost in translation - dialects (status, region of origin)
*inn-keeper using Quixote's way of speaking to make his life epic and giving advice
*damage done
*knighthood
Cervantes part of a first generation of writers who were professional writers.
1605
first story in a world abandoned by God
Renaissance
*He refuses to accept social conventions, and this demonstrates the arbitrariness of conventions
*Juan Aduldo flogging Andres - reader is invited to judge. Andres going to Seville later (port city, corruption).
*Toledo merchants: Dulcinea (can one believe what one cannot see? socio-religious subtext)
*Act of kindness on part of a low-class character (neighbor finds him and takes home at night
*more on the origin of his madness
age of reason
prose: common, no form
Chapter 1
*50 years old
*Nothing about family history
*self-invention, "self-fashioning" -
names: himself, horse, lady
dulce (sweet) rocin ante
(before a workhorse)
*man of words
Chapters 9 and 10
*disruption of narrative
*the history of the text
*found manuscript strategy
*translation
*Arabs
*continuation of the story
*Sancho and Quixote discussing rules of chivalry
and the realities of travel
Chapter 7
*Sancho - very common name
panaza- belly, gut
*illiterate (proverbs, folk wisdom)
*wise and valuable judgement
*respectful but holds his ground talking to quixote
*extension into longer novel here
Madame Bovary
Passages that emphasize books
from: "Staging a Rewriting: "Madame Bovary" and the Romantic interpretation of "Don Quixote"
The significant role literature plays with Emma and Don Quixote: they imitate the desires of the heroes from their books.
Emma strives to lead a life of passion and material extravagance like the heroines of her romance novels.
Romantics (1800s) viewed Don Quixote as a hero who symbolizes rejections of boring social reality. Romantics, through favoring passion and imagination, were reacting to the Enlightenment, which stressed reason and logic.
Chapter 8
*first time the two disagree about the nature of what is being seen
scene structure:
1. They see something.
2. they argue about what it is.
3. DQ takes action.
4. They discuss what it was.
*wise interpretation of reality