Hamlet vs Don Quixote: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d6-pek18zqY.html "Tirant lo Blanch" - the Catalan Epic had a big influence on Cervantes. Here is my review: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FhCAZpbKrRo.html What did you think of my "original" new idea for a 21st Don Quixote?
What a life he had? Surviving captivity is in itself a miracle. Seneca said: ‘we suffer more in imagination than in reality’, for Cervantes, it was imagination that saved him from the sufferings of life. As usual, the effort and time you invested in this video are beyond real. Thank you so much.
Cervantes depicted his own exaltation and frustration with his heroic, feverish homeland, and he cried and laughed as he denied his past and at the same time felt affection for it. For some reason it is so touching that it makes me want to cry too. I love Don Quixote. Thank you for the wonderful lecture about Cervantes.
omg! That is exactly the way I feel... I thought I was "nuts," but saw your comments... and there is another. I know who I am but so many feelings conflicting and bubbling up make me emotional when I thing of El Don... he was true to himself and not a coward.
One of the greatest books I have ever read. It is hilarious, tragic, and incredibly well written. I have read it a few times,it's really worth coming back to, I always notice details that I had missed before.
When Sir Walter Scott wrote his first novel, Waverley, his prime inspiration was Don Quixote. The influence of this Spanish classic is hard to gauge in the world as it currently is, but throughout the 16th to 19th centuries, Cervantes was the primary cultural export of Spain. I've read this amazing book and absolutely loved it! I own several translations and versions, one of my favorites is a magnificent graphic novel that follows the story almost perfectly. One little side note, the fabled fictitious city of Lankhmar from Fritz Leiber and his sword and sorcery duo Fafrhd and the Grey Mouser were inspired by a short story by Cervantes called Rinconete y Cortadillo....it's a tale of two young upstarts looking for adventure in 16th century Seville. Cervantes is the king of story....Another great video and adios!
I started reading this book about one year ago and just finally finished yesterday! Awesome video, your analyses are always well-written and personal. I would totally read a modern retelling based on Van Gough!
Brilliant video thank you. It has been a few years since I’ve read this now but it’s still one of my favourites. More then anything, I didn’t expect such an old book to be so funny. I agree, with many, that the second book far surpasses the first (thank god all those fake sequels came out at the time, other wise we might not have got Cervante’s masterpiece). One plot point is really vivid in my memory; when a town think it would be funny to make Sancho it’s Mayor so they could mock him - he of course becomes the best mayor ever. I also remember Don Quixote elegantly describing how a good leader should act, and it being the polar opposite of Machiavelli’s The Prince. Another example when Quixote bucks the trend, but also seems like the only sane person in the room.
Thank you for this material. You are contributing to high quality videos. You are working really hard to keep doing critics. I found you have a serious approach. Congratulations. Greetings from Argentina.
I also love the compare between book one and book 2- never thought about it as such as return to the root- the quest solves in answer. And on and we live and we keeps on adding to our spiral greatly more senses and dimensions …this really should be a modern story - a new religion where the body is allowed to mesh with consciousness - as science continues to deny what we imagine with , what we aspire with , what we fall in communion as aha - wow -yes like in alchemy -coagulation . 7 th stage from calcination … maybe don q is a revisiting Hermes . You are a great teacher . Thank you from all space quijotas…
Disculpe que le escriba en español .Gracias por su extenso y bien documentado video. Al leer a Don Quijote pocas veces me he reido, casi siempre he sentido tristeza o melancolia e incluso rabia. Por otra parte, en su lectura aprendi muchos nuevos vocablos y refranes, corroboré lo que el paso del tiempo ha cambiado a la sociedad española y tambien aquello que permanece imborrable en nuestra herencia cultural. Cuando visitas La Mancha con sus extensas llanuras y sus pueblitos aislados puedes entender que un hidalgo de aquel tiempo, que no trabajaba, pudiese enloquecer haciendo algo de lo poco que se podia hacer entonces:leer. Hoy en dia podemos hacer muchas más cosas y viajar de forma real o virtual, aun asi, muchas personas se enfocan obsesivamente en una única actividad que puede trastornar su mente, por lo que un nuevo quijote bien podría ser escrito sin problemas en la actualidad. Saludos desde la patria de Cervantes.
I am starting to admire your channel the more I listen. Although the synapsis of Don Quixote was ever so brief, I was drawn to it due to the mention by the Giant of German Pessimism, who claimed it is one of only a few novels worth reading, and that in original Spanish. That said, an ultra modern rewrite could only serve as an injustice although so compelling that the very compulsion could also serve as the prime motivational factor of the first person of the subject story. Like so many internet topics that are played out ad nauseum only to be forgotten to the newest flavor of the microsecond, this unrelenting compulsion to stand out and make a definitive statement in today's world could never be underestimated. Coupled with the extremities of both high tech and low tech, ultra proper should wellness psychology and cyber madness perversion, after all the internet has roots in pornography, we could have the first great cyber novel. Much credit to you of course for igniting that flame. To tie together super tech internet mass media AND real world street corner pain, sorry, and folly, we will need a mechanism, perhaps, PLACE BOOK, knock off of Facebook, with fact that hard books are almost faded to time and the internet surpassing, perhaps, Gutenberg for the number one all time mass media venue. Like anything, tying it all together in a tragically funny story that will also resinate to the finicky masses with an attention of a common housefly will prove problematic. MarkMannM2 Problems are motivating factors, not causes of failure.
Love the video. I've been wondering when you would cover this. Have you read The Truth about Sancho Panza by Franz Kafka? If you haven't I highly recommend it.
Great video, my friend. I just finished reading the preface and i was blown away. I also read midnight's children and loved the magical realism parts. I cant wait to finish don quixote
Your analysis of societal madness and group think are fantastic. These ideas are very relevant to the current world events of 2022, up to and including fake news.
As i learn about the past i realize the depth in thinking the books written by people who lived in a time of complete brutality terror and little human rights was perhaps the chief motivating factor.. the world was hazardous to anyones health.. my god the sadness and cruelty was everywhere..
I think the most interesting part was you said when others played along with him out of a reverence. He had enough rationale to see through that and finally see his own madness as well. I also think when he said live for a long, long time..means not to go mad. What do you think? Thanks.
"Apart from its pure alchemical role, the cabala was used in the elaboration of several literary masterpieces, which many dilettantes can appreciate, without however guessing what treasures they hide under the attractiveness, the charm, the nobleness of style. This is because the authors --- whether they are named Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Plato, Dante, or Goethe --- were all great initiates. They wrote their immortal works not so much to leave to posterity imperishable monuments of the human genius, but rather to instruct it in the sublime knowledge of which they were the depositories and which they had to transmit in their entirety. We should judge in that way, apart from the already quoted masters, the marvelous artisans of chivalrous poems, jests, etc. belonging to the cycle of the Round Table and of the Grail; the works of Francois Rabelais and the ones by De Cyrano Bergerac; Don Quixote by Miquel Cervantes; Gulliver’s Travels by Swift; the Dream of Polyphilus by Francisco Colonna; the Tales of Mother Goose by Perrault; the Songs of the King of Navarre by Thibault de Champagne; The Devil as a Predicator, a curious Spanish book of which we do not know the author, and many other books which, albeit less famous, are not lesser in interest nor in knowledge."
Sorry, this was many years ago on the Broadway stage. There was also the film version with Peter O'tool. Enjoyed your presentation here with artist drawings. thanks
I never tire of hearing about Don Quixote. He is a hero and a conundrum. I believe that Italo Calvino was also greatly influenced by Cervantes. The whole notion that trying to help just makes things worse is as timely today as ever.
By saying that the writer of this story is sidi Hamete ,actually Cervantes tried to give homage towards andulisian culture that was fading from people’s mind. He was aware of the growing intolerance in the christian world and how it hindered the creativity of the people.The book is full of meta narrative and even in the first volume we get the vibe of the story telling process of "Arabian nights ".In the philosophical point of view he showed us the importance of language and culture through time. I love your channel and discussion a lot♥️♥️♥️
There's a book titled The Return of Don Quixote by Chesterton, a great reversal of Romanticism into a critique of Modernism. I also recommend The Map And The Territory by Michel Houellebecq, which deals with similar themes but more in a meta-style narrative. You need to know who Houellebecq is, about his public image, to enjoy the roman more profoundly.
Great video as always, Sancho my fav sidekick too!! Since you love kafka, also read his book 'the truth about sancho' if u haven't already :D Btw what do you mean when you say Midnight Children traumatized you? I would love to see you cover more authors from India, would strongly recommend Arundhati Roy, specifically her book 'God of small things'. The prose is some of the most beautiful I have seen in fiction.
Thanks a ton! I'm intrigued by Kafka's Sancho. Thanks for the suggestion. Midnight's children, i read a very long time ago. I found the plot interesting but the storytelling really boring, the main character was a self-centred show off. I think Rushdie is a good writer and his language very rich but not good at storytelling or characterisation. The novel was way too long but i had to finish it for a book club and that added to my frustration with it.
@@Fiction_Beast ah I feel you, the book was a chore to finish, albeit a rewarding one towards the end. However, I absolutely loved Satanic Verses and ended up reading almost all of his books. If u ever wanna give him another chance, I would say Shame is a more accesible book of his, a work of satire, straightforward and quite good. From there on it's whatever (if anything at all) interests you about his work, which is almost always loaded with the geopolitical affairs of the world of that time, so good commentary, along with his classic magical realism. Thanks for the reply! I really like your stuff. Never stop!
I remember hearing the musical and seeing the Peter O'Toole film and thinking about how much color and excitement brought to local people. From the looks of it, their lives looked predictable and dull but now there's some excitement! Also what happened to Dulcinea, Sancho, and other characters after our interesting hero passes on?
From what I understand Don Quixote and Pipwick Papers were heavy influences on Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. Be interested to hear your thoughts on Dickens as he is a great love of mine.
If you write a modern don quixote it would be real masterpiece because you seem really good at analyzing characters but I have problems sometimes about you being in atheist but beside if you book I will read it
I would like to thank you, because I wouldn't have read part 2 immediately after part 1 (which I liked a lot, especially the Sierra Morena episodes), if I hadn't watched this video. Part 2 is more complex, perhaps to compete with a sequel written by someone else. The relentless shenanigans of the Count and Countess were more scary than funny. It's sad that Don Quixote, on his deathbed, said that reason came too late and he had no opportunity to make amends by reading other books that could be a spiritual light.
The 21st century Don Quixote already exists, his name is Kick Ass. Kick Ass is a comic written by Mark Millar about a teenage boy who reads a lot of superhero comic books and decides to become one, he’s delusion causes him a lot of pain and multiple near death experiences, it also funny and gory but very interesting, please read or watch(it has a movie adaptation) it if you can.
I admit I made two tries at Don Quixote, ten years apart and never finished. The second attempt got much further than the first. On the other hand, I breezed through the Exemplary Stories. I am interested to know how you were traumatized by Midnight's Children? I read The Satanic Verses and Haroun with no troubles.
Someone else asked the same question, so here is my answer (copied): Midnight's children, i read a very long time ago. I found the plot interesting but the storytelling really boring, the main character was a self-centred show off. I think Rushdie is a good writer and his language very rich but not good at storytelling or characterisation. The novel was way too long but i had to finish it for a book club and that added to my frustration with it.
He was completely making fun of those chivalric tales. Don Quixote was not an action hero, but a puffed-up idiot, who has read too many chivalric tales. It's a complete send up of these tales in every way. It's one of the funniest book I ever read.
In that time, in Spain most of the people know how to read, including womans. After that the number of people that know how to read decrease significantly. Was in the 50’s when Spain recovers the same amount of alfabetism
I always thought that Don Quixote was representing the reality of romanticism in a sarcastic way. A tendency towards going back to the Goldman age of chivalry, becoming great again as Donald trump says. This attempt is foolish because there’s never a possibility of going back to the old values.
A modern Don Quixote . . . how about a near-future Don Quixote? What if the ghost of Umberto Eco somehow impregnated John Le Carre, and the resulting baby grew up to write a dystopian Don Quixote story? We'd be blessed with "Gnomon" by Nick Harkaway.
Great compare- yet what about the deeper hidden aspect of the sacred stories- Kabbala- the great sacrifice of Jesus - the alchemy reference - book of splendour as if Cervantes really was a converso - and that part of Spain the golden age where Jews and Muslims and christian had unity. Then after inquisition many - jewish families had to fake it - many reference to eating habits about pigs --did you visit any of these precepts in your readings. Even reference to corollaries to same words as also the name QUIJOTE - dulcinea - book of splendour even the dark night of soul has analogy to a mystical text . It is quite interesting to me because it is exactly what i thought - for me when I read it - sounds like a saviour story of sacrifice for the impossible justice here….in revelations - it says “ i am the bright morning star” offspring of DAVID …what do you think - yes I thought a modern version as DON GOOD JOE - fight for the right - balm of healing us from covid - protecting our freedoms though frail and old -
"Tirant lo Blanch" was written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell, finished posthumously by his friend Martí Joan de Galba and written in the Kingdom of Valencia in Valencian; so Valencian epic, not Catalan.
Oh, I can't! ...You put Salman Rushdie in the same sentence as Don Quixote and Cervantes. And somehow fail to notice that Don Quixote is a Spanish King Arthur story - indeed, making fun of the King Arthur tradition. Which did all the elements of these stories, but not as comedies (maybe, we can't actually know that) for 1000 years and more before Cervantes. I mean, come on. Cervantes is pretty obviously a literally response to Chretien de Troyes. I've read both - it's pretty obvious to me which comes first and which is a response to which. But, sure. Cervantes' Don Quixote just formed in his mind in a vacuum, because a story about a man inventing the novel in captivity is a more interesting story to you than how a man took a French and British storytelling tradition and made it fully Spanish with the emergence of the Spanish identity. It's too complicated and you'd have to have read at least two books in order to compare how the Spanish national identity was intentionally shaped in the same was as the French and English national identities - via the framework of the King Arthur stories. ...Whatever. I've already put more time into complaining that you made this video than you did thinking about it.
You made up almost everything!! Cervantes did not write the Don Quixote.. that is the truth! The original “Don Quixote” is an English book. Francis Bacon wrote the part of the hero. Ben Jonson took on the role of Sancho Panza, John Donne wrote the poems, “the two friends” Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were assigned the task of writing loose stories. These authors made use of the library owned by Robert Cotton. The printer, William Stansby, inserted concealed clues into the text. The Spanish translations were carried out by Thomas Shelton (DQI + DQII) and James Mabbe (the “bogus” DQ). Miguel de Cervantes was just a poor Spanish writer who had sold his name to survive. He had told his life-story to the English, so that it could be processed into the DQ. Jettie H. van den Boom
