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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. -Ecclesiastes 9:10 No question has vexed readers of Don Quixote more than the matter of its author's intentions. Did Cervantes mean simply to burlesque knight-errantry, to cut its madness definitively down? Or did he think to immortalize chivalry, confirming with an imposing literary mon¬ ument its immense symbolic power? Whatever we choose to affirm by way of an answer, we can locate the genesis of our critical per¬ plexities in the work of the novelist himself. From the pages of the part I prologue, where a personified author, stymied at the moment of saying what he means to say in the book he is presenting, gratefully lets a "friend" read out the sum of his intentions, we are led into the textual labyrinth of a plot in which declared aims proliferate, collide with one another, even work against themselves. My premise in this essay is that Cervantes's novel foregrounds intentions-his own, Don Quixote's, those of a whole host of other characters-not in order to tease us into deciphering his own "true" authorial purpose but rather to dramatize the difficulties inherent in all intending and meaning. In his exposure of the cont

Author

Mary Malcolm Gaylord

Published

2019

Language

EN