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The history thread in A/T convinced me to read Don Quixote and I guess this is the classics thread, so I'm here to post. I can absolutely see why this was one of the first longform prose fiction books to take off big time after the printing press started spreading. It's funny as hell, and irreverent of being well-read in a way that must have appealed to the middle class consumers who could suddenly afford frivolous books, but might not know all the older books that Cervantes is telling them not to waste their time with. I'm always a fan of the found fiction metanarrative--for example, Cervantes ends chapter 9 on a cliffhanger and apologizes to the reader that the notes detailing Quixote's life end there; chapter 10 begins with an account of how he found the continuation of the story. I mostly wanted to start because I'm a history buff (nearly all the books I read are history nonfiction) and was interested in it as a primary source on how early modern people viewed the transition from the middle ages to their own period, but I'm extremely pleased that I get such a delightful read at the same time.
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