Wonderful analysis. One of the things I found so striking about Don Quixote was how shockingly modern its sensibilities felt in many respects. I often slog through the classics on a first reading (a failure on my part, surely), but the novel seemed to reach out and grab me in a way pre-20th-century literature rarely, rarely does.
Wonderful analysis. One of the things I found so striking about Don Quixote was how shockingly modern its sensibilities felt in many respects. I often slog through the classics on a first reading (a failure on my part, surely), but the novel seemed to reach out and grab me in a way pre-20th-century literature rarely, rarely does.
I agree wholeheartedly. It's about 1000 pages long, but when it was done I would've read another 200-300 pages. That book is alive.