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<\/a><\/div>\n\nQuixote right outside, and a brilliant baritone singing in front of the house
\nnext door, so who we were we to say no?<\/div>\n
\nWho the Heck is Don Quixote?<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>\n\nFor those not well-versed in literary endeavors, Don Quixote
\nis a fictional character created by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in a
\nbook rather awkwardly titled The Ingenious Gentleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha. This
\nis what Wikipedia has to say about it: <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nPublished in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don
\nQuixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age<\/a> and the entire Spanish
\nliterary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature<\/a>, it regularly appears high on
\nlists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library<\/a> collection that
\ncites Don Quixote as the authors’ choice for the “best literary
\nwork ever written”.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nNeedless to say, no one in my family has read it, not
\neven Aryk, the writer and English Literature major. This is what Wikipedia says
\nit is about:<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nThe story follows the adventures of a noble (hidalgo<\/a>) named Alonso Quixano who reads so
\nmany chivalric romances<\/a> that he loses his sanity
\nand decides to become a knight-errant<\/a> (caballero
\nandante), reviving chivalry<\/a> and serving his country, under the name Don
\nQuixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho
\nPanza<\/a>, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing
\nwith Don Quixote’s rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood<\/a>.
\nDon Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it
\nis and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nDon Quixote and My Mother<\/h3>\n\n<\/div>\n\nMy late mother\u2019s favorite musical was The Man of La Mancha<\/b><\/a><\/i>, a 1965 musical about Don Quixote. She would have really enjoyed this museum. If you have ever heard the song The Impossible Dream, you should know it comes from this musical. (I realize this is irrelevant, but I had to share it anyway.) <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nThe museum, located a couple of blocks off the main
\nsquare, was founded in 1987 by the collector Eulalio Ferrer Rodr\u00edguez<\/b><\/a>, a former
\ncaptain in the Spanish Civil War who, legend has it, traded a pack of cigarettes
\nfor the book Don Quixote<\/i>, and the book helped keep him
\nsane and captured his imagination during the time he spent in a refugee camp in
\nFrance. An entrepreneur involved in communications and advertising, he later immigrated
\nto Mexico and brought his devotion to Don Quixote to Guanajuato, which is now
\nfamous for its annual, month-long Cervantino festival \u2013 even though Cervantes himself
\nnever set foot in this city!<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n
\nis a fictional character created by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in a
\nbook rather awkwardly titled The Ingenious Gentleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha. This
\nis what Wikipedia has to say about it: <\/div>\n
\nPublished in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, Don
\nQuixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age<\/a> and the entire Spanish
\nliterary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature<\/a>, it regularly appears high on
\nlists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library<\/a> collection that
\ncites Don Quixote as the authors’ choice for the “best literary
\nwork ever written”.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nNeedless to say, no one in my family has read it, not
\neven Aryk, the writer and English Literature major. This is what Wikipedia says
\nit is about:<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nThe story follows the adventures of a noble (hidalgo<\/a>) named Alonso Quixano who reads so
\nmany chivalric romances<\/a> that he loses his sanity
\nand decides to become a knight-errant<\/a> (caballero
\nandante), reviving chivalry<\/a> and serving his country, under the name Don
\nQuixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho
\nPanza<\/a>, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing
\nwith Don Quixote’s rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood<\/a>.
\nDon Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it
\nis and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nDon Quixote and My Mother<\/h3>\n
\n<\/div>\n\nMy late mother\u2019s favorite musical was The Man of La Mancha<\/b><\/a><\/i>, a 1965 musical about Don Quixote. She would have really enjoyed this museum. If you have ever heard the song The Impossible Dream, you should know it comes from this musical. (I realize this is irrelevant, but I had to share it anyway.) <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\nThe museum, located a couple of blocks off the main
\nsquare, was founded in 1987 by the collector Eulalio Ferrer Rodr\u00edguez<\/b><\/a>, a former
\ncaptain in the Spanish Civil War who, legend has it, traded a pack of cigarettes
\nfor the book Don Quixote<\/i>, and the book helped keep him
\nsane and captured his imagination during the time he spent in a refugee camp in
\nFrance. An entrepreneur involved in communications and advertising, he later immigrated
\nto Mexico and brought his devotion to Don Quixote to Guanajuato, which is now
\nfamous for its annual, month-long Cervantino festival \u2013 even though Cervantes himself
\nnever set foot in this city!<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n