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| Just finished Don Quixote after reading it since like Oct or Nov | |
| What was I supposed to get out of it and why is it so highly regarded? The first part had its moments and toward the end I really enjoyed all the side characters, the side quest stories and romances. But before that it just felt like a bunch of silly scenes. Overall it felt like it kept dragging on, especially part 2. | |
| The passage where Don Quixote was giving tips on being governor was pretty kino though that I had to take pics of my the passage | |
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| >What was I supposed to get out of it | |
| If you have to ask that question after reading a book, consider that maybe reading is not for you. | |
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| >>21916207 (OP) | |
| >What was I supposed to get out of it | |
| >reads 1000 pages of a novel | |
| >does not get anything out of it | |
| >comes back to lit and asks others what to get out of it. | |
| kys | |
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| Don Quijote, Oblomov, Don Juan all read like comedies, noble people in modernity are ridiculous figures yada yada but they are actually very based and redpilled and spirited | |
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| >>21916207 (OP) | |
| >What was I supposed to get out it | |
| Enjoyment | |
| >why is it so highly regarded? | |
| Other people have enjoyed it too. | |
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| >beginning | |
| lol Don Quixote is mad | |
| >end | |
| lol Don Quixote is the only one who isn't mad | |
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| lmao, you were just supposed to read an excerpt of the windmill part and pretend you read it all. Idiot. | |
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| >>21916207 (OP) | |
| You're supposed to get a little fun and escapist whimsy out of it. It's ridiculous and escapist precisely as a deconstruction of chivalric literature and stories in general. | |
| All stories are, in some form, escapist. Cervantes is making the point that we should enjoy having our fantasies and daydreams, but that we should be careful not to lose ourselves in them. | |
| In short: have fun but not too much fun. | |
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| What's the best translation in English? | |
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| >>21916221 | |
| >>21916449 | |
| Let me rephrase Op's question: why is it considered so significant, what is its relevance | |
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| >>21916221 | |
| what a pissy faggot thing to say. people should ask this every single time they read. stop being a gatekeeping bitch. | |
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| >>21918015 | |
| is don quixote crazy in a world of sane people or sane and tragically noble in a world of jaded bitter people | |
| Though it reads like 900 pages of Spongebob and Patrick pretending to be knights. I wish I didn't finish. Don't think it was worth it | |
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| >>21916207 (OP) | |
| Ever heard of Fun? | |
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| >>21918015 | |
| Literature back then was entertainment, its a fun and well written story people liked back then thats it. | |
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| >>21919709 | |
| Anon acaba de comparar una serie de dibujos animados contra el genoma de la literatura. | |
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| >>21919946 | |
| Es más laudatorio de Bob Esponja más que un oprobio a Don Quijote. | |
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| >>21916207 (OP) | |
| DON'T listen to anyone claiming it's supposed to be fun. Cervantes is the most sarcastic and bitchiest bitch to ever have existed. His idea of fun was to risk his life and fuck with the Council of Trent just to prove the Inquisition was dumb. Everything he wrote was meant to attack stuff he didn't like, nothing of what Cervantes ever wrote was innocent fun, and anyone saying the contrary probably can't even read Spanish. | |
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| >>21919709 | |
| Most shit just flew over your head. Don't worry, it;s normal. | |
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| >>21921572 | |
| Yes it’s meant to be an absolute miserable reading experience and no fun is allowed - dismiss that it inspired the merriment of Laurence Sterne, Joyce, Melville, etc, etc. | |
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| >>21916523 | |
| this | |
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| >>21921596 | |
| >miserable reading experience | |
| Learn Spanish or find an acceptable translation. | |
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| >>21916207 (OP) | |
| This is a book of MIRTH. The ending of Book II is awful though. Be mad Quixote, be mad. | |
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| >>21921572 | |
| >Everything he wrote was meant to attack stuff he didn't like | |
| And that's bad, because? | |
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| >>21921601 | |
| Irony, por favor? | |
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| >>21916207 (OP) | |
| Did Don Quixote smile? Was he silly? Or was he like straight-faced dead pan all the time? | |
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| >>21921591 | |
| maybe. i wasnt going to read a bunch of classic knight errant literature before quixote and im especially not going to read it now | |
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| >>21916667 | |
| >didn't watch a brain dead retard explain the book to him | |
| Ngmi, obviously you didn't start with the YouTube vids about the Greeks | |
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| >>21921572 | |
| You fucking idiot, you're supposed to take it lightly. Stop taking things so seriously, even if Cervantes was making a point and criticising things, he wasn't trying to be a hardass about it. | |
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| >>21916207 (OP) | |
| It's "the first novel" in the same way that the first microwave is the first microwave. | |