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Don Quixote
(〔Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. Don Quixote〕 or ; ), fully titled ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' (), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, ''Don Quixote'' is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection that cites ''Don Quixote'' as authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written".
It follows the adventures of a nameless hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name ''Don Quixote''.
He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality. It had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844), Mark Twain's ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884) and Edmond Rostand's ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' (1897), as well as the word "quixotic". Arthur Schopenhauer cited ''Don Quixote'' as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with ''Tristram Shandy'', ''La Nouvelle Héloïse'' and ''Wilhelm Meister''.
==Summary==
Miguel de Cervantes said that the first chapters are taken from "The Archive of La Mancha" and the rest translated from the Arabic from the Moorish author Cide Hamete Benengeli. This metafictional trick appears to be designed to give a greater credibility to the text, by implying that Don Quixote is a real character and that the story truly occurred several decades back.
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