Cervantes on «Don Quixote»

The Author: Emilio Martínez Mata, professor at the University of Oviedo, Spain, and visiting professor in several universities, is a specialist in Golden Age Spanish literature and the chair of an international team of scholars studying the worldwide reception of Don Quixote. He is the author or editor of several books, including Cervantes y el «Quijote», Cadalso’s Cartas marruecas and Noches lúgubres, Iriarte’s Los literatos en cuaresma, Samaniego’s Fábulas and Moratín’s El sí de las niñas.

Contents: The Cervantes' game of the work's fictional authors - Ridicule of literary affectation - The nature of the connections to chivalric romance - Seeing both sides of human behaviour - The ironies inherent in insisting on the truth of a narrative - Perspectives on the two protagonists - The relevance of the inserted tales - Don Quixote as meta-literature and as a work of entertainment - The widely divergent readings that it has provoked.