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0 celebrated Author! O fortunate Don Quixote! 0 famous Dulcinea! O comical Sancho Panza! Together and separately may you live an infinite number of years, bringing pleasure and widespread diversion to the living.--Cervantes, Don Quixote, II, 40
Don Quixote is the mother of all novels. Or as Lionel Trilling put it, "All prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote." That theme is the clash between what we think, or imagine, or wish is so, and what is so. The clash is a matter of differing perspectives: personal, intellectual, class, cultural, historical. The consciousness of perspective--that I see things this way and you see things that way--is a form ...