Don Quixote, Dissident

Everyone called them Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

People called them Don Quixote and Sancho Panza... and they never knew that neighbors found their friendship ambiguous.

In their burlesque approach to humanity, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are the most enduring and endearing clownish couple in world literature.

No doubt about it, Soriano is a Colombian Quixote who went crazy, just as the Knight of the Sad Figure, with books.

In medieval Spain, Quixote like knights probably did roam the countryside, ridding it not of dragons but of the land s few remaining Muslims.

Like Don Quixote and Cervantes himself the artist dreams of other rules and rewards than his fellow men, who are content to digest their everyday lives.

It is no surprise, then, that for the last 400 years Don Quixote and Panza have bred many relatives and successors, including countless buffoonish boss and servant couples.

The simplest explanation for this may be found in Flaubert s words about Don Quixote I found my origins in this book, which I knew by heart before I learned how to read.

Indeed, at the core of Don Quixote is something essential that we knew even before we read it but which became part of our nature only after we completed its mesmerizing journey.

By not being able to participate in either of the preceding two San Juan Fairs, the country has lost income of around 15,000, with which it could have financed a run of no less than 7,000 copies of a popular edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote.

In the world circus, the poet looks like a Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, and Augustus the Fool appears ill equipped for everyday life. Like Don Quixote and Cervantes himself the artist dreams of other rules and rewards than his fellow men, who are content to digest their everyday lives.