![]() ![]() ![]() It is considered to be the first modern novel, probably the greatest ever written in the Spanish language, and influential in Western literature all over the world. Contemporaries in time (they died one day apart) and impact, Cervantes wrote his masterpiece ‘Don Quixote’ in two parts in 16. ![]() Miguel de Cervantes is often called ‘the Shakespeare of Spain’ and it’s an apt comparison. The town itself is pleasant but unremarkable for travellers except for the house where Cervantes spent much of his life. ![]() Let’s start in the small town of Esquivias, less than an hour’s drive south of Madrid. They will form the chapters of this journey through the land of Don Quixote, to see the landscapes that our delusional knight rode through, the landmarks where he stopped, and the genesis of the idea in the mind of Cervantes. It’s a bit like a trip through the Spanish region of La Mancha today.įor me – and you, as you follow along with me as narrator today – we don’t have the luxury of having no desire to call to mind the names of the villages in La Mancha. Somewhat whimsical and mythical but with enough grounding in truth and enough relatable facts that you can imagine the detail. It’s a lovely literary trick that sets up the style of the whole novel. He lives, as Cervantes puts it, “in a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind”. In the opening line of the eponymous masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes, we meet the character of Don Quixote. ![]()
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