Baja Bernie - 5-1-2010 at 08:46 PM
Don Quixote
Surely Don Quixote must have
Discovered Baja
Where else may
You joust with windmills
And win
Bernie Swaim
marv sherrill - 5-3-2010 at 04:31 PM
keep -em comin Bernie!
Don Quixote is Not a Joke nor is He a Fool
Gypsy Jan - 5-3-2010 at 05:01 PM
"Quixote has served as an important thematic source not only in literature but in much of art and music, inspiring works by Pablo Picasso and Richard
Strauss. The contrasts between the tall, thin, fancy-struck, and idealistic Quixote and the fat, squat, world-weary Panza is a motif echoed ever since
the book’s publication, and Don Quixote's imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes in the novel. Even faithful and simple
Sancho is unintentionally forced to deceive him at certain points. The novel is considered a satire of orthodoxy, truth, veracity, and even
nationalism. In going beyond mere storytelling to exploring the individualism of his characters, Cervantes helped move beyond the narrow literary
conventions of the chivalric romance literature that he spoofed, which consists of straightforward retelling of a series of acts that redound to the
knightly virtues of the hero."
[Edited on 5-4-2010 by Gypsy Jan]
Jan
Baja Bernie - 5-4-2010 at 05:38 PM
So did I do wrong or what...I love Cervantes and his stories...Look at my books and you will find that Don Quixote is a 'spoofed' work....reading a
book as he advances on an ass is my publishing logo.
Life is fun and he makes it so and we all win.