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The windmills that Don Quixote mistakes for giants have something in common with the madeleine that makes Marcel's memory buds salivate: both occur conveniently early in very long books that are, in English at least, more praised than read. And Cervantes may resemble Proust in another way. Both are comic writers, properly snagged in the mundane, whose fiction has too often been etherealized out of existence. Miguel de Unamuno, the relentlessly idealizing Spanish philosopher, considered "Don Quixote" a "profoundly Christian epic" and the true "Spanish Bible," and correspondingly managed to write about the novel as if not a single comic episode occurred in it. W. H. Auden ...