/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15931817]

Just found out from another anon that this guy was Jewish. Was he, dare I say it, /ourjew/?

[Anonymous No.15931839]

>>15931817
>Don Quixote is to the Spanish language what Shakespeare is to English, Dante to Italian, and Goethe to German: the glory of that particular vernacular. There is no similar singular eminence in French: Rabelais, Montaigne, Molière, and Racine vie with Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust. Perhaps Cervantes’s masterwork is the central book of the last half millennium, since all the greater novelists are as much Don Quixote’s children as they are Shakespeare’s. As I have remarked elsewhere, Shakespeare pragmatically teaches us how to talk to ourselves, while Cervantes instructs us how to talk to one another. Hamlet scarcely listens to what anyone else says (except it be the Ghost), while Falstaff so delights himself that Prince Hal can seem merely the best of resentful students and half-voluntary audiences. But Don Quixote and Sancho Panza change and mature by listening to each other, and their friendship is the most pervasive
in all of literature.
>Don Quixote or Hamlet? Sancho Panza or Falstaff ? The choice would be difficult. But Hamlet has only Horatio, and Falstaff ends in solitude, dying while playing with flowers and evidently dreaming of the table promised in Psalm 23 to be prepared for one by God in the midst of one’s enemies. Don Quixote dies in Sancho’s loving company, with the wise squire proposing fresh quests to the heroic knight. Perhaps Shakespeare did invent the evergrowing inner self, compelled to be its own adventure, as Emily Dickinson (an authentic heir of Shakespeare) proclaimed. Cervantes, whose life was arduous and darkly solitary, was able to achieve a miracle that Shakespeare evaded.

[Anonymous No.15932837]

I have yet to see convincing proof.

[Anonymous No.15932843]

>>15931817
Wrong, Cervantes was actually Sir Francis Bacon and Don Quixote is the product of his genius, created as a reconciliation between Britain and Spain after the war for Flanders

[Anonymous No.15932851]

>>15931817
no jew is our jew except for /ourjew/

[Anonymous No.15932883]

>His father, Rodrigo de Cervantes, of whom nothing is recorded in history, was a native of Alcala de Henares, which is an ancient town of New Castile. His mother, Leonor de Cortinas, was a native of the neighbouring village of Barajas. Both Rodrigo and his wife were of good old Castilian strain, and, though poor, entitled to be ranked among the hidalgos.
>In the genealogy of the famous Nufio Alfonso [temp. Alfonso VI.), the first Alcaide or Governor of Toledo, written by Rodrigo Mendez Silva in 1648, the pedigree of the Cervantes family is traced up to the early Gothic kings of Leon.
>Cervantes himself, though proud of his pure Castilian stock and his untainted blood, was not one to boast of natural privileges which availed him so little—which were so common a pretension in that age.

Who knows if he was or wasn't.

[Anonymous No.15932949]

>>15931817
Spinoza may be, or we can put a team together of /ourjews/