Don quixote as a funny book

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Don quixote is not the foremost comic masterpiece of the european spirit. I knew it was gonna be humorous, but i didnt know i. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. Petipas don quixote by the american ballet theatre. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Spains most famous eccentric takes center stage in a comedy that sort of manages to hold up in spite of the m. Peter russell has shown that cervantess contemporaries considered don quixote a funny book, while many readers now consider it a serious and even tragic. Don quixote is one of those books whose influence is so. More than 400 years after its publication and great success, don quixote is widely considered the.

Buy don quixote penguin classics rev ed by cervantes, miguel, rutherford, john isbn. So it was that, as late as 1742, henry fielding sought to attract readers to his novel joseph andrews. Amusing as the scrapes into which don quixote throws himself often are, this is not just a funny book. More than 400 years after its publication and great success, don quixote is widely considered the worlds best book by other celebrated authors. The very first translation of don quixote was dublinborn author thomas sheltons english take on the text, published in 1608. It tells the story of an aging man who, his head bemused by reading chivalric romances, sets out with his squire, sancho panza, to seek adventure. This novel plays an important role in the spanish literature for it marks the golden age of spanish literature. The contrasts between the tall, thin, fancystruck and idealistic quixote and the fat, squat, worldweary panza is a motif echoed ever since the books publication, and don quixote s imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes in the novel.