Chekhov's Mistress
Humor in Don Quixote
I just put a long post up at 400 windmills surveying some aspects of humor in the Don Quixote, searching for appeasement to my own discomfort with some of the comedic aspects of the book.
An excerpt:
Bakhtin wrote that “a fundamental strand of Cervantes’ parodies is a ‘coming down to earth,’ a contact with the reproductive and generating power of the earth and body.” He associates “Sancho with the body, the materiality of human existence: ‘Sancho’s materialism, his potbelly, appetite, his abundant defication, are of the absolute lower level of grotesque realism on the gay bodily grave (belly, bowels, earth) which has been dug for Don Quixote’s abstract and deadened idealism.’”
Read the post here.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: May 13, 2005
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Wise Men Fish Here: Literature
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