It became a common place to affirm that «we all are Don Quijote de la Mancha, in a way or 
another»... Even the ones who never read the book seem to feel miraculously identified with Cervantes' hero (or especially these ones).
As the saying goes, «We all have something of a doctor and something of a fool»... but something of Don Quijote? 
another»... Even the ones who never read the book seem to feel miraculously identified with Cervantes' hero (or especially these ones). By inventing this old madman, Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra intended to write a parody on the cavalry books (the pink editions of those days), very popular among the readers... Alonso Quijano lost his reason by leafing through that kind of works.
Above: painting by Carlos Pereira da Silva.
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I have recently read Nabokov's criticism of this great book. Very interesting. Though, other critics say that he was a great writer but a terrible critic...
I would say that too. (A terrible critic) People in his time who heard the story about the windmills knew he was talking about la "mesta", the corporation who owned all the land, the sheep, and the bakeries, and making them starve... This wasn't so ridiculous.
"vivir loco y morir cuerdo" :)
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