The making of a character: from Alonso Quijano to don Quixote
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2008.005Keywords:
Alonso Quijano, Addiction, Madness, LiteralityAbstract
The transformation of Alonso Quijano into the insane don Quixote is not due to complex psychological or psychoanalytic reasons which may be found in the life of the Castilian nobleman. The different theories exposed about the life of Alonso Quijano are only reflections which diverge excessively from the text and elude the most simple —but also most faithful— explanation offered by the novel itself: the immediate consequences of Alonso Quijano’s addiction to a specific type of entertainment have exact parallels in our time; his madness is a literary corollary which should not necessarily have a scientific explanation.
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