Don Quixote

What do the names Amadis of Gaul, Palmirin of England, Don Bellianis of Greece, Tirant lo Blanch tell us today? Indeed, it was as a parody of the novels about these knights that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) created the "Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha". And this parody has outlived the parodied genre for centuries. In 2002, according to a survey conducted among writers by the Nobel Institute, "Don Quixote" was recognized as the best novel in the entire history of world literature. It is no coincidence that V. Nabokov asserted that, "while reading other novelists, with Don Quixote we do not part for a moment in some sense," recognizing its features in John Jarndyce, in Konstantin Levin, and even in Emma Bovary. .