出版社：Editura Universităţii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iaşi
摘要：Miguel de Cervantes published the second part of Don Quixote after the appearance of a counterfeit part two. Anxious to counter his imitators and prove the real paternity of the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, Cervantes allowed his imagination to wander so far from existing prose genres – the pastoral tale and chivalric romance being the most popular at the time – that he ended up in an entirely new form. That form is the modern novel, and he is credited with its invention. The book tells the story of the third journey of Don Quixote, a knight errant, and his squire, Sancho Panza, in quest of a new self. This time, Don Quixote’s madness seems to fade into some sort of “sense of reality”. In fact, he is lucid enough to ask questions about how real reality is and how unreal illusion is, what fiction is and what fact is. His most interesting discovery is the realization that he is not a real human being, but only a character in a novel.
