After The Catcher in the Rye, this is a book that really moved me just by its idea, its story.
If you know nothing about it, I will tell you this: you might not like it. This book is about an adventure a middle-aged man made with a servant. It is more like a cosplay set in the Middle Ages. This man was obsessed with chivalric tales and imagined himself as a noble knight. On his way to the adventure, he met a servant who wanted to share the journey. These two gentlemen are, others would say them deluded, but some would value their bravery.
In the Vladimir Nabokov's book, Lectures on Don Quixote, he analyses this novel from a different perspective. He emphasizes the cruelty in the story. The pranks and humiliation from other characters contrast with the pure inner world of Don Quixote. However, at the end of the book, Don Quixote renounced his sense of reality. By which he lost his uniqueness. The brutality of the world defeats the dreamer, leaving behind only the shell of a man. It's a reminder that sometimes, the bravest men end not with glory, but with the quiet surrender of a broken spirit. The more tragic the end, the greater the contrast with the comedy beginning.
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After The Catcher in the Rye, this is a book that really moved me just by its idea, its story.
If you know nothing about it, I will tell you this: you might not like it. This book is about an adventure a middle-aged man made with a servant. It is more like a cosplay set in the Middle Ages. This man was obsessed with chivalric tales and imagined himself as a noble knight. On his way to the adventure, he met a servant who wanted to share the journey. These two gentlemen are, others would say them deluded, but some would value their bravery.
In the Vladimir Nabokov's book, Lectures on Don Quixote, he analyses this novel from a different perspective. He emphasizes the cruelty in the story. The pranks and humiliation from other characters contrast with the pure inner world of Don Quixote. However, at the end of the book, Don Quixote renounced his sense of reality. By which he lost his uniqueness. The brutality of the world defeats the dreamer, leaving behind only the shell of a man. It's a reminder that sometimes, the bravest men end not with glory, but with the quiet surrender of a broken spirit. The more tragic the end, the greater the contrast with the comedy beginning.
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After The Catcher in the Rye, this is a book that really moved me just by its idea, its story.
If you know nothing about it, I will tell you this: you might not like it. This book is about an adventure a middle-aged man made with a servant. It is more like a cosplay set in the Middle Ages. This man was obsessed with chivalric tales and imagined himself as a noble knight. On his way to the adventure, he met a servant who wanted to share the journey. These two gentlemen are, others would say them deluded, but some would value their bravery.
In the Vladimir Nabokov's book, Lectures on Don Quixote, he analyses this novel from a different perspective. He emphasizes the cruelty in the story. The pranks and humiliation from other characters contrast with the pure inner world of Don Quixote. However, at the end of the book, Don Quixote renounced his sense of reality. By which he lost his uniqueness. The brutality of the world defeats the dreamer, leaving behind only the shell of a man. It's a reminder that sometimes, the bravest men end not with glory, but with the quiet surrender of a broken spirit. The more tragic the end, the greater the contrast with the comedy beginning.
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