期刊名称：Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
印刷版ISSN：0277-6995
出版年度：2009
卷号：XXIX
期号：02
页码：203-203
出版社：Cervantes Society of America
摘要：I will begin with the simplest statement I can make about narrative
time in Don Quijote.1 Narrative time in the book, Part I, 1605, Part II,
1615, is solar time. It is that simple. The story is etched out according
to sunlight on Spanish soil, as the sun determines night and day, dawn and
dusk, and its effects on the inhabitants en un lugar de la Mancha. When
Cervantes committed himself as exemplary narrator to parody the style
and action of chivalric romances, libros de caballerías, he necessarily adopted
as his means, that is to say, as models, their scale of narrative,—
hours, days, years, according to solar motion. Those chivalric narratives like
Amadís de Gaula and Esplandián are as for time and space historical accounts
or chronicles: adventures, trials, travels, told in units of time, from
hours of the day, months, to years but within an immutable generic season
of summer.
