Igraine
10-22-2009, 12:25 PM
As everybody already knows who reads this; Don Quijote is a very complex work. There is something I've been thinking about: who is the telling voice?
Is it Cervantes or another person? As I understand it we can gather there is almost a 'poetic Cervantes', a bit like Dante uses for his Comedia, who is telling the story? But he in his turn has found the story through a third source, such as the Arab man who sells some pages to him? Then we also have Don Quijote himself at some points acting as Cervantes medium to convey the real Cervantes' voice, not the poetic Cervantes? Is this something you can agree upon?
Is it Cervantes or another person? As I understand it we can gather there is almost a 'poetic Cervantes', a bit like Dante uses for his Comedia, who is telling the story? But he in his turn has found the story through a third source, such as the Arab man who sells some pages to him? Then we also have Don Quijote himself at some points acting as Cervantes medium to convey the real Cervantes' voice, not the poetic Cervantes? Is this something you can agree upon?