"Don Quixote"

I am going to talk about one of the most famous novels that a Spanish writer wrote thousands years ago Don Quijote de la Mancha. 

Don Quixote is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who was a soldier, novelist, poet and Spanish dramatist. Published its first part with the title of The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha in early 1605, is the most important work of Spanish literature and one of the highlights of world literature. It is also one of the most translated. In 1615 he published his second title of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.

Don Quixote was the first genuinely demystifying work of the chivalrous and courteous treatment by giving you burlesque tradition. Represents the first literary work that can be classified as modern novel and the first polyphonic novel, and served such as an enormous influence on all subsequent European narrative.

(This picture is in La Mancha, Spain, and the mills he thought were giants)

Following the tradition of chivalry, Don Quixote is entrusted to Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary woman he created. In the world of Don Quixote, nothing is what it seems. The mills are giants, sales are castles, the plebeian are princesses, and puppets are Moors. 

During these wanderings the ways of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza intersect with other characters who tell their stories. But not all are fun and funny adventures --in some, especially in the second part-- Don Quixote and Sancho Panza become targets of ridicule and deception. In the end, Don Quixote is no longer the comic and burlesque character. Overcome by disappointment, our hero regains sanity but dies.

Style and Structure:

It is divided into two volumes, chapters 52 and 74, respectively, which tell the story of a gentleman of La Mancha chivalry style. It can also be divided into three outings. The first is from the chapter 1-8, the second is the rest of the first volume, and the third occupies the entire second half.

It is narrated in first person, third person although it seems most of the novel. One of the few instances in which the narrative is perceived in the first person is the first (and famous) line of the novel: "... In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not remember" (Part 1, Chap. 1). Dominates the dialogue, especially between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

It is a Renaissance work by his humanism, but with (the heartbreak, the theatrical atmosphere and false appearances) baroque features. While it is a parody of books of chivalry in which dominates the dialogue, interspersed stories that come from other characters with whom Don Quixote is in his wanderings, lend themselves to the use of different narrative styles. The pastoral story, the sentimental novel, the picaresque novel and the Italian novel are examples. Also popular tradition appears in stories and sayings ("wisdom") of Sancho Panza. It also includes poetic forms, like old chivalry romances, songs and sonnets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote