Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: The Second Part

Let's go tilting at windmills and finish what's reputed to be the first novel in Western literature, and one of the longest for our October meeting. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was published in two parts, the first in 1605 and the second in 1615.

We're following the author's lead and reading and discussing his book in two sessions. For this second session, please read "The Second Part of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha," starting with the Dedication and Prologue to the Reader to the Second Part and finishing the book with the Second Part's Chapter LXXXIV (84), titled, "Which deals with how Don Quixte fell ill, and the will he made, and his death."

We'll meet again at the Mission Valley library in Seminar Room A. The library sets a limit of 12 persons for the room. Feel free to bring your own refreshments.

(Chapter numbers and titles above are from Edith Grossman's translation.)

-dave rankin