Cervantes' Don Quixote - Audio

Commentary of the key concepts of Spanish Baroque, desengaño, introduces González Echevarría's suggestion that the plot ... Read more

The modern novel that develops from the Quixote is essentially a political novel and an urban genre dealing with cities.... Read more

González Echevarría talks about the transition that we, as present-day readers undergo, between Part I, published in 160... Read more

The lecture focuses on the ending of the first part of the Quixote, which for the seventeenth-century reader was, simply... Read more

González Echevarría starts by commenting on three of the returns and repetitions (characters who reappear and incidents ... Read more

The insertion of the Novel of the Curious Impertinent at the end of part one of the Quixote may be explained by Cervante... Read more

In this part of the Quixote, Cervantes makes a boast of narrative mastery by combining the sequential structure of the c... Read more

Professor González Echevarría resumes his commentary on the galley slaves episode by talking about Ginés' cross-eyedness... Read more

Important meditations about the nature of literature and the real take place in the chapters commented on in this lectur... Read more

After pointing out the prosaic world depicted in the Quixote with subtle but sharp irony, González Echevarría analyzes t... Read more