Spring Book Club: Don Quixote

Published: June 6, 2019, 6:45 a.m.

42 Minutes 336: Spring Book Club - Don Quixote - 05.24.2019 Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago. Thus, the book club follows the adventures of this noble Hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant, reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire. Topics Include: Cervantes, Sync Borges, Nabokov, Figurants, Outside, Inside, Subject, Object, Real, Fake, Degree, Empire, Class, 1492, Inquisition, Old Christian, Converso, Occult, Astrology, Shakespeare, Magical Tradition, Translation, Truman Show, Fame, Knight Errant, King James, Enchantment, Brutality, Ego, Honor. 42minutes.com