El Quijote entre los libros de caballerías
ISSN: 2284-2667
Year of publication: 2015
Issue: 3
Pages: 107-121
Type: Article
More publications in: Historias Fingidas
Abstract
This article analyzes some narrative techniques of Don Quixote in relation with the genre of spanish chivalric novels and thus determines the relation of Cervantes’ work with this genre: not only parody (and thus imitation) of a huge amount of chivalrous motives, but also an unequivocally chivalric-style prose that affects many passages. Therefore, it seems that the hidalgo is not the only one who confuses reality and fiction in this work, but also Cide Hamete, with his own chivalric style, seems to share Don Quixote’s chivalric vision of history. In addition, this article exposes the internal paradoxes in the text that prevent a flatly consideration of Don Quixte as a novel of chivalry.