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>the curate is randomly given a manuscript by the innkeeper
>Cervantes proceeds to tell the entire 40 page long story
I mean, it was a good story, but that felt a bit ridiculous

>> No.5798272

this is one of the first novels. he didn't know the rules

>> No.5798281

>>5798272
so it's shit but it's old so let's excuse its shittiness. classics general?

>> No.5798290

>>5798281
It's a good story, though

>> No.5798401

then prepare your angus for the manuscript found in saragossa

>> No.5798499

>>5798269

this was actually a very common trope among medieval literature. always the "i found this manuscript blahblahblah"

>> No.5798508

i liked it
don quixote was comfy as fuck
read it in four days, about 10 hours of reading straight per day

>> No.5798512

>>5798269
>it was a good story
it was terrible
>but that felt a bit ridiculous
that kind of shit was commonplace back in the day and we should bring it back

>> No.5798519

>>5798512
>implying golstein's 'book' in 1984 didn't ruin it for all of western literature

>> No.5798524

>>5798269
>he doesn't get that Cervantes was being satirical by including it
It was a common trope back in the day. Don Quixote is going over your head

>> No.5798532

Could anyone provide some info about Ovid and Cervantes? I read on wikipedia that Cervantes was influenced by Ovid when writing Don Quixote. When I was reading The Metamorphoses, I couldn't help but think of Don Quixote and how one story would spinoff into another.

>> No.5798557

>>5798524
yeah, this too

>> No.5798562

>>5798532
he was influenced by ovid because of his constant references to greek and roman myth, which wouldn't have been possible if he hadn't read metamorphoses

>> No.5798564

How much of this book is satire? It's getting kind of hard to tell. Stuff like finding Dorothea in the woods and her life being so closely related to Cardenios, telling the entire story OP mentioned, finding Ferdinand at the inn so randomly, etc etc all feel like parody to me but I'm not really sure

>> No.5798569

>>5798564
yes, he's parodying the common deus ex machina and shitplots from medieval chivalric novels
that shit happened all the time, the knight would go off fighting someone then 'come across' a friend of his in some random location

>> No.5798581

What are some other good works Golden Age Spanish lit?

>> No.5798582

>>5798581
lope de vega's plays

>> No.5798591
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5798591

>>5798564
>How much of this book is satire?
The whole thing?

>> No.5798600

That story was hilarious, are you kidding me?
>all of that forced and needless drama when Camilia stabs herself
>the story continuing on because her maid is cheating on someone
>all three of them dying of fucking grief
>Lotario gives a fucking five page argument against his friend but he still ends up trying to seduce his wife
Am I wrong to say that this thing was satire?

>> No.5798635

>>5798508
>10 hours of reading straight per day
wtf how do you do this

>> No.5798671

>>5798635
got insomnia brah
i like to just sit in my garden in the moonlight with my kindle wrapped up in blankets and coats and read from like 12pm to 8pm, then sleep for only two hours :(

>> No.5798675

>>5798564
>>5798269
>>5798600
Theres a man riding a fucking ass on the cover.

>> No.5798678

>>5798600
>tfw can't remember the plot let alone the character names

>> No.5798691

>>5798675
Was this not common or something?

>> No.5798708

>>5798581
Going off this, has anybody read El Buscón?

>> No.5798729

>>5798671
that sounds like the literary life.

>> No.5798749

>>5798272
>>5798281
Only cuckolds believe in 'rules.'

>> No.5798764

>>5798691
It's poking fun at the trope of knight in shining armor seated upon a trusty stallion by placing a man wearing "armor" upon a feeble ass.

>> No.5798776

>>5798764
His squire is riding an ass. They're poking fun at the knight in shining armor riding his trusty steed with Don Quixote wearing shitty armor and riding a skinny old hack

>> No.5798815

>>5798581
If you haven't read "La vida es sueño", do so.

Calderón de la Barca.