Re: Cervantes: Don Quixote

Originally Posted by
Peeping Tom
Loved it, especially the second half.
By the way, we're lucky to have the second part. Probably Cervantes didn't want to write it: from the end of the first part we cannot be sure of this. Maybe Avellaneda's Quixote spurred him to write the second part.
Even more impressing is the likelihood that the original version of the book was formed by the first six chapters and part of the seventh. But, as far as I'm concerned, I cannot imagine Don Quixote without Sancho.
Someone mentioned the ending: I think it's quite moving, seeing Alonso Quijano again, and his being so sad and so sincere.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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