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Why did he hate cavalry novels so much?

>> No.11509156

>>11509094
well that's the thing, he started out to write a satire on books of chivalry and ended up creating the most beautiful apology for them that can be found in literature.

>> No.11509857
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>>11509094
>popular with obsessive fans & dumb masses
>tended towards poor writing
>abrasively overt philosophy in dialog
>borrowed haphazardly from other genres without deep consideration
>big strong muscle men fight with honor to see who's the biggest strongest muscle man
>animal sidekicks
>overpowered magic
>repetitive and formulaic
>outshone other, better genres
They were the capeshit of his time.

>> No.11509871

>>11509857
his skepticism was an intellectual attitude: under it, there was a man who loved the knights as much as don quixote himself. above all, he was spanish.