Why should you read "Don Quixote"? - Ilan Stavans 

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I can't ... It's not school approved

through deliberate practice

TED-Ed I run an expressive channel on here.

TED-Ed by mixing everything I enjoy and see if I can make a story out of it

Yesss hahaha

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Were living the same simulation 😂

Beautifully said.

I have a similar thing with “to kill a mockingbird”

I read it for the first time in my late sixties after reading that Dostoevsky said if there is any proof of a divine omnipotence, its cervantes "Don Quiote"

Read it 3 times, but last year I listen to it...is easier

Ive done this with the little prince and the alchemist

I was thinking searching what is Don Quixote these days but YT offered to me instead 😂

Same! ”Don Quixote” is my favorite song on the album so I’m happy to learn a bit of backstory to it ;)

Omg me too I was wondering why they named it don quixote😂

Every time I hear the name Don Quixote, I can hear Mingyu 😂 MY HEADS UP, I keep 'em high~

Same here

That’s not the message of the book, by any means

@@JulioLeonFandinho But it has several messages one if I remember well was that of the freedom or moral decline of Spain at that time

@@kalm6778 It portraits many social types from that time, I don't think you can say one of the messages is that Spain was declining. It definitely criticizes aristocracy, but regular people too, although Cervantes was very careful in showing that within regular people you could always find good people... the salt of the Earth, we may say so. He was tough with Catholic church, but also with other social groups of the time, like lawyers... but at the same time he defended laws, for instance when Don Quixote frees the galley slaves. At first you think it's well done, because those people are convicted to a rowed ship, but then you realize that they were condemned because they were criminals, so, Don Quixote apparent justice act was in fact, appalling... And one of the points of the huge success of the novel in all Europe back then is that what Cervantes was describing in Spain, was happening in the other countries as well, if not exactly the same, probably worst... people realized that. The book is universal because all the issues treated in it happened everywhere. You can tell that many of those issues are still happening today. The book is still new, it's amazing. But the main message, the more general and abstract/philosophical message is precisely that an excess of 'imagination', uncontrolled idealism, always ends in a complete disaster. Cervantes wasn't an idealist at all. Some authors tried to connected him with Erasmus and humanism, but Cervantes thinking was, in fact, the opposite of that. He was a realistic man. It was during romanticism when many people started to say that El Quixote was a defense of idealism. Nothing further from reality

@@JulioLeonFandinho Y sin embargo; a la muerte del hidalgo, Sancho ruega a su maestro que vuelvan al camino; y así el realista se aferra al idealismo mientras el idealista acepta la realidad. No hay duda en que el mensaje realista está ahí; pero comprendo que los idealistas también encuentren inspiración en el libro. Yo creo que en ultima instancia Cervantes aboga por un equilibrio o cuanto menos una coexistencia de ambos aspectos. El idealista no puede cambiar el mundo en el que se encuentra, por muchos molinos contra los que cargue; pero al mismo tiempo es el único capaz de ver verdades que los acérrimos realistas son incapaces de ver. Yo casi lo definiría como una defensa del idealismo desde un punto de vista relista... si es que eso tiene algún sentido XDD En verdad creo que si Cervantes hubiese abogado por un punto de vista puramente realista, Quijote hubiese muerto apaleado y desprovisto de gloria en una cuneta; y no como una trágica y melancólica figura que muere feliz y cuerdo habiendo sido capaz de inspirar su idealismo a una futura generación personificada en Sancho... No se, es lo que a priori me transmite a mi XDD

@Jefferson Cortez Definitely not the message of the book. The whole book was a harsh criticism of idealism. Specially the end where Alonzo Quijano came to his sense and criticized his insanity during the time he was Don Quijote.

He didn't read comics but novels of heroic knights. But my teacher told us that one of the reasons why the novel never loses validity or get old is that it can be extrapolated to any epoch

Drunkrobot you don’t get it judging by your “in a nutshell” take of the book

Touche'

Yeah, but this was the first one. This is like "Columbus arrival in 1492? Who cares? I can also go to America from Europe easily now...."

@@Nonius9 that's not it. El Quijote is a masterpiece by its own. Not only because it is the first of its own, but because it has so many layers and it is so well written that it is considered the best of all time by many academics.

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@Drake Barnes Don't you mean Quentin Blake's?

Like the redbull ads I love it

Picasso

I like the spider.

Somehow it only gives.

Don Quixote is a lunatic.

It's not Don Quixote who's the lunatic. It's the world that is crazy.

@@ramonalejandrosuare cant disagree with that

My recollection is he dies. His deathbed conversation with Sancho is the most poignant and perhaps most meaningful part of the book. How is there a sequel?

Exactly! Or not crazy enough. Cervantes was also criticizing the Spanish of his time for not reading or traveling enough.

I'm pretty sure carats searched Don Quixote so much that RU-vid recommended this video😂😂 it's my favorite song from the new album ahh!! Who is your bias?

lol 🤣 I clicked this video (suggested to me), and wonder if I’ll see a Carat’s comment 🤣 my bias is Wonwoo 💖

@@jinriepark7868 awesome!! Hehe my bias is woozi

so fun to see carats here!!

Agreee

Beautifully said!

“It is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.” - Brandon Sanderson

@@TheCrescentKing yeah saying this during covid haha

The wisdom you harbour.❤️❤️❤️. Well said.

Completely agreed!

Yeeeees

So much cringe though.

The 1st part anyways

I mean, the sick burns that Cervantes throws at Quixote alone…

Was searching for the uncover pm fam glad i found them quickly

The odyssey is our sleeper agents

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Same

Same here, thats wacky

Man i thought i was unique for coming for these books🤣

Could you please name them?

Same one year later

Why?

True! I also never wanted to read it before seeing this video. I always thought it was a overrated book.

It’s a beautiful book. There’s so much meaning in everything. In school you have to read it and I learned that whatever society tells you, even when something seems imposible, you can face the wind mills

Back in high school they forced us to read this book. I hated it with a passion, I couldn't finish the first page. The exams were near and I refused to read it, my mom offered to read it out loud for me, I said yes. After the first chapter I realized I wasn't even understanding anything the words said. My native Spanish is very different from Spain's Spanish, and it's even more different than Spain's 1600's Spanish. I gave up, did the exams anyways and never read it. I think this book really killed any desire for me to read books. Six or seven years passed until I read the first book since my failed attempt at Don Quijote, I read Nietzche El Anticristo, I kept it hidden from my parents since they're deeply religious. Eight more years have passed since I read that and I've now created for me the habit of reading, it is so wonderful that I regret all those years wasted. Maybe someday I'll read Don Quijote.

Isaac Campos all that to tell us that.

Do u know the name of the Spanish back track used

maybe, its gratitude by amin toofani...!

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Don Quixote was the original Social Justice Warrior radicalized by Academia.

You’re funny “idealistic generation”. Good one!!

@@marcopolo9146 what do you mean by that (genuinely curious)?

Very well said!

Great insight

I find this book funny..

What is meta-awareness? How is it included in the second volume of Don Quixote?

@@angelswrld. uh I'm three months late but I hope you need the explanation regardless lol. Don Quijote and Sancho Panza, in the second book, encounter people that have read the first book and try to mess with them to 'recreate' and experience in real life what they read in said first book. They also make some reference (I don't remember how) to the false second part, published to make fun of the official first book (el Quijote de Avellaneda). See, Cervantes had some beef with Lope de Vega (another famous Spaniard author) so it is said that he's the author of the second false novel; he uses it to insult both cervantes and his work, and Cervantes retorts with the official second part

I suggest using an audiobook and following along on hard copy. Then you'll have momentum.

it is boring and this video is a better not boring version of the book ))

Nice!

Most boring book I have ever read

@@filipljubicic1268 or did you?

I'm a keen reader and I understand why people found it funny, but reading in ancient Spanish while getting on with a wicked humour can make it boring. That's why they should read it by the development, hidden messages, plot... Bcs it is a try masterpiece

@@jaimes.5314 The aancient Spanish can sometimes be difficult, but if you manage to immerse yourself in the book you will find the best tragicomedy that can exist in the world.

Wow! You know alot about this

I'm sorry to tell you but you did not understand anything

Lol that’s not what that means at all 😂😭

You didn’t have to spoil the ending

no, its more a criticism of idealizing knights and medieval chivalry

Nổi tiếng quá có trong sách Ngữ văn luôn :))

@@thanhbinhtruong1986 Đúng rồi.

Yep, mới học mấy tuần nay. Lũ bạn cứ cho là bài này nhảm không cảm nhận được nhiều như văn học Việt nhưng tui thấy nó cũng không đến nỗi tệ, hoặc do tụi nó không hợp với mấy chuyện này

My classmates laughed a lot. My teacher said it was a very meaningful and funny story, but I (and all my classmates, I think) found it funny more. LOL

Linh Lê there’s a free version on apple

I’m here cause of an artist named p type lol

I thought I'm the only one 🤣😭

Omg same!

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​@@jackedbeastliftswomp womp

Sebastian T. Those words are just so epic. You know is gonna be a good read when it starts like that

Todo un capo el Quijote

12. same 🙈🙈

Joe who?

@@hansolo1983 joe mama

oofy damn you really did it to em

Nnnn had to do it to em 😂 👌

“GALLOP ON ROCINANTE, JUSTICE SHALL PREVAIL.”

*"It's game time"*

Same

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moh I know that feeling

It's Man of La Mancha*

@@GameyRaccoon r/ihavereddit

@@fillemorte dont necro

I'm pretty those are windmills, not giants.

Good' un

두려운 건 내 속에 나 내 모든 걸 걸겠어 난 So Imma light it up, light it up

lol i came here after their live performance of don quixote😂

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​@@jackedbeastlifts jacked beast here missed the point of the novel

Too bad for you

F no they're ruining it

Which songM

@@alonsor.n2279 don quixote by seventeen

i keep 'em high

Duryeoun geon nae soge na

nae modeun geol geolgesseo nan

So Imma light it up, light it up

I just wanna feel the vibes

No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition

No one does

Hah! Three things, Fear, Surprise, an almost fanatical allegiance to the Church and...four things! Fear, Surprise, an almost fanatical allegiance to the Church, unstoppable zeal and...five things, Fear, Surprise, an almost fanatical allegiance to the Church, oh bloody ‘ell...

I "did'nt" expect someone to butcher the word 'didn't'

Contrary to popular opinion, the Spanish Inquisition had few executions compared to the other European inquisitions.

Those lines gave me chills. ❤

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@@jackedbeastlifts cry more

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