Perhaps the greatest novel ever written, in any language. It is also a parody of the "knight in shining armour" ideal that was on the wane at that time in history.
Don Quixote was popular in the 1960s because it was also a time of a paradigm shift away from the extraordinary "good man" archetypal hero. The new anti-hero became a lovable scoundrel.
Eventually, the anti-hero figure of the late 1960s devolved into the often copied Tom Hanks portrayed "child in a man's body" film roles in Big (1988) and Forrest Gump (1994).
Perhaps the greatest novel ever written, in any language. It is also a parody of the "knight in shining armour" ideal that was on the wane at that time in history.
ReplyDeleteDon Quixote was popular in the 1960s because it was also a time of a paradigm shift away from the extraordinary "good man" archetypal hero. The new anti-hero became a lovable scoundrel.
Eventually, the anti-hero figure of the late 1960s devolved into the often copied Tom Hanks portrayed "child in a man's body" film roles in Big (1988) and Forrest Gump (1994).