![]() ![]() Miguel de Unamuno, the relentlessly idealizing Spanish philosopher, considered “Don Quixote” a “profoundly Christian epic” and the true “Spanish Bible,” and correspondingly managed to write about the novel as if not a single comic episode occurred in it. Both are comic writers, properly snagged in the mundane, whose fiction has too often been etherealized out of existence. And Cervantes may resemble Proust in another way. ![]() The windmills that Don Quixote mistakes for giants have something in common with the madeleine that makes Marcel’s memory buds salivate: both occur conveniently early in very long books that are, in English at least, more praised than read. Cervantes’s masterpiece, though extolled as “profoundly Christian,” bristles with small blasphemies it is the founder of secular comedy. ![]()
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