Don Quixote's Hunger

What is it about?

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Why is it important?

Part Two of Don Quixote, which Cervantes published in 1615, a decade after Part One, is—to risk an anachronism—a seventeenth-century version of the soft reboot. In this, Quixote remains the same deluded knight-errant he was in Part One, but the world he inhabits is one in which both Don Quixote Part One and Avellaneda’s noncanonical volume also exist. Whereas Part One of Don Quixote chronicled the tragicomic adventures of a man “enchanted by a dream of resurrecting the courtly ethos in a world which has long ago forsaken it,” Part Two unfolds a tragedy of the disenchantment that comes from living as a fictional character in a real world. Throughout the novel, Quixote encounters people who, having read of his exploits, manipulate him for their own amusement. No longer just a naïve reader, Quixote is also the one who is read. https://daily.jstor.org/is-don-quixote-to-blame-for-modern-movie-reboots/

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