Before providing a
conclusion and going in depth into the three articles I will speak about why I
have chosen this topic. At first I was thinking about investigating in Don
Quixote as the transition book between Renacimiento and Barroco and the elements
of that two periods that appear on it, but it seems me a very vast topic.
I start having a look at lots of pages,
but suddenly I discovered the interesting article
Al Morir Don
Quixote and I start my investigation in this way. It is very
curious because I am a Spanish Literature teacher and I have read El Quixote
deeply and twice and I have explained it in class and I didn’t know all the
interpretations that last scene has aroused and is arousing nowadays. After you
read the novel you don’t take into account that
this scene is so important, but if
you pay attention
after reading
the
book
you don’t know if he has died because of fever or due to his melancholy.
The joint of that three
articles is the fascinating topic of what happened after the death of Don
Quixote.
After reading
the
book
you don’t know if he has died because of fever or due to his melancholy. With
that
three articles
you arrive to a coclusion, after the death of Don Quixote there is a lot of
story to finish, a lot of characters that need to be developed, as Sansón
Carrasco. All the characters except Sancho Panza, Dulcinea and, of course, Don
Quixote, need to be developed in depth.
The first
article deals about the novel of
Trapiello
Al Morir Don Quijote and its main
topics. That novel win the
IV edition of the
«Premio de Novela Fundación José Manuel Lara Hernández».
It is a tribute, as Unamuno published
Las vidas de Don Quijote y Sancho
in 1905 or Azorín, in the same year, published
Las rutas de Don Quijote.
Then we have another article
that copes with the
three deaths of Don Quixote
with some conclusions, as that there are two separate characters between the
same, as Don Quixote, the mad, and Alonso Quixano, the sane, and we don’t have
to see Don Quixote as the fool who is every day imagining things or doing crazy
adventures. Another important conclusion is the one that appears at the end of
the article and at the end of my and is the transition of Don Quixote, who
passes from being an “
The third article is a very political one, it is titled The democracy of Don Quixote, it explains that this book is the transition,
and that Cervantes created a literature that could do justice to “modest
sentiments”. It speaks about another authors as
Kafka,
Kundera
and
Jim Coetzee. Speaking about Coetzee, his latest collection of
essays, Inner Workings (Harvill Secker), keeps returning to the question of "the
novel form," and how Cervantes created it in order to demonstrate the power of
the imagination.
Then the article deals about the politics and the literature, and quotes
Benjamin and
his Marxism, Susan
Sontag and
Hamish Hamilton.
Finally it speaks about
Mario Vargas
Llosa, who has on at least one occasion, gone out of his way to
achieve political power.
and ends up saying that the conclusion
of the article is that the history of democracy began not in politics but in
literature, when Cervantes first tackled "the problem of the narrator," or the
question of who gets to tell the story. As it puts in the end of the article:
No doubt about it: Don Quixote is "a
21st-century novel."
In a nutshell, with that
investigation, when you have read all the websites and articles,
you can have your own opinion about what happened after the death and what was
the real cause of this death.