“ Don Quixote’s misreadings—his determination to read fiction as reality—license our millions of readings of him because Cervantes kept the ambition of Don Quixote’s journeying as wide and unspecific as possible … We know what Don Quixote thinks he is doing? But what is he really doing? What do his strivings represent?
James Wood, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
10 months ago
