A Companion to Don Quixote

An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece. The purpose of this book is to help the English-speaking reader, with an interest in Spanish literature but without specialised knowledge of Cervantes, to understand his long and complex masterpiece: its major themes, its structure, and the inter-connections between its component parts. Beginning from a review of Don Quixote 's relation to Cervantes's life, literary career, and its social and cultural context, Anthony Close goes on to examine t