Furores impresos. La saga de las primeras lecturas del Quijote

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Abstract

The premise on which this critical volume is modulated is simple and subversive: Alonso Quijano, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's character, a poor gentleman famous for being crazy, for being good and for being an idealist, reads as a woman and as a female. It is demonstrated, from the index of the text at hand, that we can all, like Don Quixote, enter the circles of madness due to excess reading, due to an overflow of fiction, due to affective and effective faith in what we choose to be and read. . The sections on which Vila's vision focuses reconstruct the second part of Don Quixote (1615) as impossible, meta-reflexive, perhaps meta-parodying, within which the first part (1605) has been edited, disseminated and read massively during the month in that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were at home. The fictional labyrinth in which Alonso Quijano had initially gotten lost absorbs and tentacularizes all the other characters.