What is it about?
This is a study of the legacy of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra in Latin America, specifically Chile, through Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) and his novel, El ideal de un calavera (1863).
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Why is it important?
Cervantes was not allowed to travel to the New World but Don Quijote had a triumphal arrival in the future Americas; the text became part of the national discourse in the emerging nations. Along these lines, Blest Gana’s El ideal de un calavera gestured to Cervantes’s text as it illustrated characters’ responses to historical events in Chile.
Perspectives
This study specifically analyses chivalry, materialism, and the grotesque in El ideal de un calavera under the light of Don Quijote’s part II (1615)
Patricia Vilches
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This page is a summary of: Chivalry, Materialism, and the Grotesque in Don Quijote and Alberto Blest Gana’s El ideal de un calavera, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/culture-2017-0003.
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