scholarly journals Una mirada poética sobre el nacimiento de la novela: El prólogo de Heinrich Heine a una edición alemana del "Quijote"

2011 ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berit Balzer
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Heinrich Heine ◽  
Subjective Data ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Great Poet ◽  
German Edition

Este artículo estudia el prólogo del destacado poeta y ensayista alemán Heinrich Heine a una nueva edición del Quijote en Alemania, aparecida en el año 1837. Se analizan los comentarios personales que hace Heine sobre la reacción que en su infancia le causó la primera lectura de la obra, así como el debate artístico interno que mantuvo con Cervantes a lo largo de su vida. El interés de dicho prólogo – cuyo carácter confesional aporta unos datos más bien subjetivos a los estudios cervantinos– estriba, sin embargo, en las personalísimas valoraciones de un genio del verso acerca del prototipo de novela moderna, ya que arrojan una nueva luz sobre la recepción de ésta en prominentes escritores. This article deals with the foreword by the renowned German poet and essayist Heinrich Heine to a new German edition of Don Quixote, published in 1837. We analyze Heine’s personal comments on his reaction when he first read this work as a child, as well as the internal artistic debate he sustained with Cervantes throughout his life. The special interest of this foreword –its confessional character contributes rather subjective data to Cervantes’ studies– nevertheless consists in some very relevant judgements made by a great poet on the prototype of the modern novel, as they shed a new light on its reception by outstanding writers.

scholarly journals Cervantes and Don Quixote de la Mancha

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 397-401
Author(s):  
Femi Oyebode
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Literature ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Sancho Panza

SummaryMiguel de Cervantes, the most influential writer in Spanish literature, created two of the most recognisable fictional characters, Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, in 1605. His novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha is regarded as the first modern novel and first international best seller. This article, in the 400th anniversary year of Cervantes' death, introduces Cervantes' biography, discusses the enduring features of his classic novel and explores the value and importance of the novel for psychiatry.

Don Quixote de la Mancha’s Narrative Structure within the Literary Tradition

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-188
Author(s):  
Yolanda Iglesias
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Over Time

The objective of this study is to present the meaning, complexity, innovation, and relevance of Don Quixote’s narrative structure within the literary tradition. First, this chapter reviews the diverse perspectives and interpretations among scholars when attempting to establish the narrative structure created by Cervantes. It highlights the directions in which scholars have, over time, been arguing about the narrative structure of Don Quixote, to show how some enigmas remain unsolved. Second, this piece re-examines previous literature with the goal of solving some of the unexplained gaps in the narrative and framing the relevance of the structure in Don Quixote, which is one of the main pillars supporting the argument that Cervantes’s masterpiece is the first modern novel.

scholarly journals GOTTFRIED KELLER ABOUT HEINRICH HEINE (PHARMACIST OF CHAMOUNIX)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (79(1)) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
A.S. Bakalov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Main Character ◽  
Heinrich Heine ◽  
Gottfried Keller ◽  
Great Poet ◽  
Love Triangle ◽  
Artificial World

The article gives an idea of ambivalent relation of Swizz writer Gottfried Keller to Heinrich Heine as person and poet. The object of the analyzes is Keller’s big poem “Der Apotheker von Chamounix”, containing both parody on the habits and features of Heine’s artificial world and respect to his person and sympathy for his suffering as well. The matter of satiric derisions is in Keller’s poem the last cycle of Heine’s ballades “Romancero”, whose poetic world gave G.Keller reasons for the parody against some features of Heine’s artificial world. Keller’s satiric poem is divided into two parts with different functions and unlike plots. In the first of them is presented the love triangle between inhabitants of a Swiss settlement Chamounix, everybody of which perished in an implausible death with following transition into the life beyond the grave. The main character of the second part of Keller’s poem are the poet H.Heine himself and figures of his dead literary teachers and opponents, whom Heine encounters during his visit in the paradise. In contradiction to Heine’s antagonists Platen and Börne, both great educators Goethe and Lessing show their sympathy to “Romancero”’s author. The poet Keller mocks over Heine as a figure and the author, but sympathizes with him as a great poet and estimated person. The second part of the poem is connected with the first one only by the figure of the girl Klara from Chamounix, who became in the second part free from her lover sins and left now her place in the purgatory for the “catholic” poet H.Heine.

scholarly journals La literatura de los otros es mi propia literatura

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branka Kalenić Ramšak
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
The Future ◽  
Literary Techniques

This essay attempts to reveal the sophisticated relations of texts, continuations, imitations and quotations between the first modern novel of western literature, Don Quixote de Cervantes, and its first continuation, Don Quixote de Avellaneda. It seems that there has been an autobiographical text by Gerónimo de Passamonte (hypothetically its author is Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda) before the first part of Don Quixote that served as a palimpsest to Cervantes. Avellaneda, whose identity is unknown to the reading public and known to Cervantes, answered him literarily with his continuation in 1614; in turn, Cervantes wrote the second part of his Don Quixote in 1615 and responded with literature to all his imitators and adversaries. In this way, the network of hypertextuality and intertextuality was established, which, like other literary techniques proposed by Cervantes, served as a model for many authors in the future.

The Real Lives of Fake People

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-442
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
The Real ◽  
Modern Novel

Don Quixote is remembered as a dreamer, but he was, in the first instance for his creator, a cautionary tale about the bewitching danger of reading fiction. When Cervantes wrote what is considered to be the first modern novel, he did so having witnessed the explosion of printed texts thanks to the invention of the printing press, and his story chronicles what happens to hapless readers who are sucked into the dreamy world of fiction's unreality. Poor Don Quixote envisioned himself as a swashbuckling knight like those in the chivalric stories he consumed, and his metastasized imagination got him into heaps of trouble. He mistook inns for castles, flocks of sheep for advancing armies, and, most memorably, windmills for giants. Cervantes did not just give readers a unique portrait of an outlandish, romantic, and impractical schemer—he also inspired the word “quixotic” to describe others like him.

scholarly journals Las rutas del «Quijote» por la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII

2017 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Garrido Ardila
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
English Novel ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
Formal Features

RESUMENEste artículo sopesa las principales derrotas en las investigaciones en torno a la presencia, recepción e influjo del Quijote en la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII. Se parte aquí de la distinción establecida entre novelas inglesas dieciochescas de temática quijotesca (las denominadas Quixotic fictions) y aquellas cuyas características formales se inspiran en el Quijote (las Cervantean novels). Respecto de las primeras se subraya la escasez deestudios y las muchas posibilidades que estas brindan al estudioso que quiera indagar en el tratamiento satírico de la compleja sociedad que las inspiró. De las Cervantean novels se destaca su engarce con la literatura de los dos siglos precedentes. La influencia cervantina en autores del Dieciocho como Fielding, Smollett y Sterne, en contraposición a la influencia picaresca en el Diecisiete, se explica aquí por razón de la necesidad, enla primera mitad del XVIII, de dotar la narrativa inglesa de las características formales de la novela moderna, lo cual hallaron en el Quijote.PALABRAS CLAVECervantes en Inglaterra, Quijote, novela inglesa del siglo XVIII, ficción cervantina, ficción quijotesca. TITLE«Don Quixote’s» sallies in eighteenth-century english fictionABSTRACTThis article is a critique of the mainstream strands in the research into Don Quixote’s reception in England and its influence on eighteenth-century English fiction. It offers a survey of the fictional narratives with a quixotic theme (the so-called Quixotic fictions) and those which deploy formal features taken from Don Quixote(known as Cervantean novels). The discussion of Quixotic fictions notes they have attracted little critical attention, and suggests the need for future studies of their intriguing satirical scope. This article also pinpoints the need to study Cervantean fictions of the eighteenth century in relation to seventeenth-century English fiction. This article notes that whilst Spanish picaresque novels were the main foreign influence on English fiction of the seventeenth century, the great writers of the eighteenth century, namely Fielding, Smollett and  Sterne, preferred Don Quixote since Cervantes’ novel provided them with the formal features of the modern novel, at a time when these authors sought to establish canon of modern fiction in the English language.KEY WORDSCervantes in England, Don Quixote, eighteenth-century English novel, Cervantean fiction, Quixotic fiction.

Armed with Madness

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-159
Author(s):  
Jed Rasula
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Realist Novels ◽  
Secret Agent ◽  
Political Trauma

Increased attention to psychology in the modern novel afforded expanded thematic access to aberrant states of consciousness. In a way, this returned the novel to its prototype in Don Quixote, and rejuvenated awareness of depicted mania in realist novels. Eight novels are profiled here (by Fowles, Fitzgerald, Lowry, Dostoyevsky, Canetti, Mann, Conrad, and Woolf) in order to examine narrative strategies for exploring madness, and implicating the reader’s consciousness as a participatory component of mental aberration. This approach counters Georg Lukács’s contention that depictions of mental aberration violated the novel’s obligation to depict normality. Modernism, he claimed, privileged distortion, but the novelists examined here suggest that the historical pressures of modernity provided distortions exceeding any particular imaginative license. These pressures are acutely rendered in portraits of domesticity in The Secret Agent by Conrad and Mrs Dalloway by Woolf, two among many such reckonings with geo-political trauma casting a shadow over private life.

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