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Saturday, August 01, 2015

Funny Ser *Must've heard of him*

X of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Y. 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 X. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with X's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. X, 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. The story implements various themes, such as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, X is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. Y said that the first chapters are taken from "The Archive of La Mancha" and the rest translated from the Arabic from the Moorish author Cid Hamet Ben Engeli. This metafictional trick appears to be designed to give a greater credibility to the text, by implying that X is a real character and that the story truly occurred several decades back. Yet it is obvious to the reader that such a thing is impossible, because the presence of Cide Hamete would have caused numerous temporal anomalies. It was a common method at the time because of the disapproval the novel genre was subject to.
Give us 'X' & 'Y'.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Don Quixote de La Mancha by Cervantes

Saturday, August 01, 2015

Funny Ser *Must've heard of him*

X of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Y. 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 X. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with X's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. X, 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. The story implements various themes, such as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, X is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. Y said that the first chapters are taken from "The Archive of La Mancha" and the rest translated from the Arabic from the Moorish author Cid Hamet Ben Engeli. This metafictional trick appears to be designed to give a greater credibility to the text, by implying that X is a real character and that the story truly occurred several decades back. Yet it is obvious to the reader that such a thing is impossible, because the presence of Cide Hamete would have caused numerous temporal anomalies. It was a common method at the time because of the disapproval the novel genre was subject to.
Give us 'X' & 'Y'.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Don Quixote de La Mancha by Cervantes