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Brian Phillips Essay on Don Quixote
Brian Phillips essay “The First Person Don Quixote*” is a fabulous meditation. Phillips ventures into the book by saying…
“The question that I want to ask is this. Don Quixote is a book about the human experience of the aesthetic image. Why is it not written in the first person?…For if the ends of interpretation have habitually been philosophical— whether Don Quixote saves or destroys religious faith; whether his creator glorifies or fears imagination—then underlying them all is a question of experience, a question of character: the central question of what Don Quixote sees. Any interpretation of the novel must necessarily begin with either an answer to this question or what amounts to the same thing, a conclusion drawn from the absence of an answer.”
Set aside some time – the essay is 27 pages – and find out the answer. In some ways, his conclusion, with more eloquence and depth, is similar to some we talked about at 400 Windmills.
- Hudson Review (Vol. LVIII, No. 3: Autumn 2005). Essay is in pdf format.
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What a fantastic piece!
– amcorrea (03/19 at 03:11 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: March 17, 2006
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