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SPAN 300 - Lecture 4 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XI-XX | Open Yale Courses

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González Echevarría starts out by commenting on what he calls the two overarching plots of the Quixote: the story about the writing of the novel, and the story about the mad hidalgo. The first is based upon several levels of narratives that distance Cervantes from his own creation. He does so as the painter Diego Velázquez in Las Meninas which shows multiple incomplete perspectives of the same work, portrays the work behind the scenes of creation, it includes the viewer in the painting as well as the author, as another character, not in a central position, but in an oblique one. With their techniques, both Cervantes and Velázquez present the limitations of human knowledge. The madness of Don Quijote is present in the two episodes that González Echevarría comments upon afterward. The episode with the goatherds connects the ideal world (inside the hidalgo's mind) and the real world of the goatherds. Their human kindness becomes a human quality in the novel displayed by many regardless of

Cervantes' Don Quixote SPAN 300 - Lecture 4 - Don Quixote, Part I: Chapters XI-XX Chapter 1. Exaggerated Mimicry, Virtual Texts and Ironic Distancing [00:00:00] Professor Roberto González Echevarría: As I said in my last lecture, and as you have already — I'm sure — seen, the Quixote has two overarching plots. One is the story of the mad hidalgo and his squire, and the story about the writing of the novel. The one about the insane Don Quixote will acquire coherence after the fight with the Biscainer, as Jarvis calls it in your translation, because he and his squire will now be pursued by…

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