Don Quixote - The Spirit of The Old Visionaries

Don Quixote is a novel that comes from a very famous Spanish. The original title of The ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is the work of Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote was published in 2 parts, namely in 1605 and in 1615.

What makes this paper praised the literary world, is because of the courage to criticize, with parody satire, stream of thought that time was the context of the world (Europe, especially Spain) - Modernity and Rationalism

Don Quixote story in essence telling the madness that was born from the cluster of wild imagination. Very nice, Cervantes described the enormous courage of a Don Quixote to defend the women and injustice in society.

This novel tells of a comical odyssey of the Spanish poor grandfather, Alonzo Quixano, in realizing the dreams-angannya become a knight. He became obsessed after reading the books that tells of the adventures of knights and battles heroically in saving the cute girl from the clutches of the bandits.

After that he was determined to become "knights" like imagination that has mastered his subconscious from earlier books. He dressed himself with the old armor, rusty, and worn-out; He crowned his Don (Spanish-style honors) to itself - Don Quixote. He imagined himself as a wandering knight. He decided that he should go explore the world. And with the spirit of hayalannya, he started planning his adventure.

So, since the start of wandering was not counted how many crazy adventures arising from utopian and crazy imagination of Don Quixote. He sees all change as she met in her book stories. Also not counted how many times he was seriously injured in combat or contests that because of his crazy imagination.

When first published, Don Quixote is often interpreted as a comic novel. After the French Revolution occurred novel Don Quixote is not merely seen as a comic only. In the 19th century it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily say "I agree with Cervantes." And in the 20th century novel has become one of the foundations of modern literature.

Novel Data
Author (s) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original title ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote El de la Mancha
Country Spain
Language Spanish
Genre (s) Picaresco, satire, parody, farce
Publisher Juan de la Cuesta