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"Don Quixote" and romanticism With the beginning of XIX century the novel begins a new life in terms of deductible and invested in it meanings. "Don Quixote" is in the field of vision of romantics, who begin to perceive the content of the novel much deeper than their predecessors, to distinguish it from such artistic innovations that either did not see or did not consider important contemporaries. For example, contemporary playwrights Tirso de Molina or Calderon, of course, knew the novel well and wrote plays on the subjects taken from it...

Don Quixote innovation Of course, the novel has always been known and always read, but it does not mean that it has always been perceived in the same way. Each generation understands the book, based on their tastes, literary and ideological views. At the same time, it is quite natural that each next era in some sense complicates the understanding of the novel. It is no coincidence that Borges, the adherent of the idea of the infinite multi-denomination of great books, insisted in his story "Pierre...

The novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra tells the story of a young hero who has already read the novels of knights and decided to become a wandering knight. Nothing special: the text was written and perceived as a funny parody of the reader's favorite at that time, the novels of the knights, but in fact everything was much more complicated. "Don Quixote" is an innovative work, and its influence on European literature began soon after the release. The publication of Don Quixote The...

Aragorn solemnly took Minas Tirit, saved from siege, appeared as a specific savior, surrounded by ghosts. Tolkin is also prone to irony. Next comes the military council, the elves, the magician Gandalf, all over the world, they decide what will happen next, and it turns out that the maximum that they are able to do and the only thing that is required of them - is to play the role of bait for Sauron, to divert attention from the two little hobbits that go through the scorched desert to this mountain to destroy the center of power...

Few people think about whether Tolkien's trilogy "Lord of the Rings" contains people. This is a good question, because we are used to personalize the image of power in the person of Sauron, Saruman or Aragorn, but is there a people? We have to understand that the "Lord of the Rings" is a logical but heterogeneous phenomenon in terms of political and cultural models. There are different loci, cultural spaces and different political systems. Curiously, a quest by Frodo and the Guardians of Hobbitania, of Shire, begins...