El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, 7

Por Miguel de Cervantes

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, séptimo tomo. Este libro contiene los capítulos XXXIII al XXXV de la primera parte y un prólogo de José Balza.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Fondo de Cultura Económica
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 23 ene 2018
• ISBN: 9786071652959

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor's prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.

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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA

El ingenioso hidalgo

Don Quijote de la Mancha

7

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA

Primera edición FONDO 2000, 1999

Primera edición electrónica, 2017

Contiene los capítulos XXXIII al XXXV de la primera parte de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Prólogo de José Balza, tomado de Este mar narrativo, FCE, México, 1987, pp. 39-41.

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Espíritu amable del más fragante humor que haya inspirado nunca la fácil pluma de mi idolatrado Cervantes. Tú que te has deslizado cada día a través de su reja convirtiéndolo con tu presencia en sol radiante la luz crepuscular de su prisión. Tú que has teñido el agua de su jarra con el néctar celestial y que durante todo el tiempo en que escribió sobre Sancho y su amo desplegaste sobre él, sobre su mustio muñón y sobre todos los males de su vida tu manto místico. ¡Vuelve hacia mí tus ojos, te lo imploro! ¡Contempla mis calzones! Son todo lo que tengo en este mundo. Ese lastimoso rasgón me lo hicieron en Lyon.

LAURENCE STERNE

ÍNDICE

PRÓLOGO. José Balza.

CAP. XXXIII.—Donde se cuenta la novela del Curioso impertinente..

CAP. XXXIV.—Donde se prosigue la novela del Curioso impertinente..

CAP. XXXV.—Que trata de la brava y descomunal batalla que Don Quijote tuvo con unos cueros de vino tinto y se da fin a la novela del Curioso impertinente..

Plan de la obra.

PRÓLOGO

JOSÉ BALZA

Ahora estamos en la venta espanto y asombro de Sancho, donde se iniciara su infortunio en manos de aquellos bárbaros que lo lanzaron mil veces desde una manta al aire, como una pelota. Pero esta vez Don Quijote regresa, bajo la palabra de la falsa reina Micomicona, con su escudero, y con el barbero, el cura, Cardenio y Dorotea. Los personajes que narraron su fábula personal en ausencia del caballero y de Sancho, ingresan ahora a la historia particular del Quijote durante este viaje. El capítulo se centra, inesperadamente, sobre libros. Ya habíamos visto la quema de la biblioteca del Quijote, suerte de selección —alabanza y condena— para muchas obras famosas de la época; y ahora el ventero discute con el cura la verosimilitud tanto de libros caballerescos como de publicaciones con otros temas. Él y sus inestables huéspedes gustan de las ficciones; les han contentado mucho. Así, para sosegar el espíritu, antes de dormir, los viajeros y la gente de la venta escuchan al cura leer la Novela del curioso impertinente.

Anselmo posee un amigo del alma, Lotario; y se casa con Camila. La perfección de su amor le despierta un extraño sentimiento, que sólo puede confiar a su amigo: necesita que Camila sea tentada por Anselmo, aunque todo en ella obedece a profunda honestidad y lealtad. Nada más alejado de la ideal encarnación que Don Quijote ha cumplido en sí mismo —hacer justicia, no mentir, elevarse sobre los conflictos— que la retorcida pretensión de Anselmo. Freud o Lacan hubiesen hallado un extraordinario material de análisis en ese temperamento oblicuo y ansioso, realista y fantasioso; en esa extraña sexualidad que abarca a la esposa fiel y al amigo honrado, hasta destruir en ellos la sinceridad, hasta conducirse a sí mismo a un paroxismo de ansioso placer, y de muerte.

La historia de estos tres personajes seduce por su ambigua exigencia: la lealtad y el engaño simultáneos. Pero recordemos que no se nos está contando algo (una experiencia, un recuerdo, una aventura): estamos leyendo algo que leen los personajes del Quijote.

Tan agible para el autor era diseñar la oscura pureza quijotesca como tocar otros fondos de la realidad. Aquello le permitía el movimiento de ascenso: un espíritu que tiene como modelo la caballería, las aspiraciones nobles (aunque a veces sea cruel, como los demás con él), y cuyo complemento, Sancho, le ayuda a introducir la ingenuidad, el humor, cierta frescura carnal al cuadro. Pero la coherencia interna de estos dos personajes no hubiese permitido al autor tocar otros oleajes. Y es ahora cuando la salida del Quijote por la puerta falsa del corral y cuando la intuitiva conducción del caballo adquieren plenitud total: en este mar narrativo a nada puede ser ajena la novela. Una corriente escondida en las formas de la fabulación, una corriente que venía desde la muerte de Grisóstomo, sacude las aguas: ahora estamos lejos de la obsesiva generosidad del Quijote y de la risa a lo Sancho: giramos dentro de abismos psíquicos, hemos sido lanzados por los celos imaginados a pasiones terminantes y sutiles, a conflictos que son, totalmente, literatura: en tanto narrar es una duda y un conocimiento. A las acciones e ironías naturales —que Cervantes maneja con la conducta de Sancho y del Quijote: el hambre, la sed, los gases intestinales, el orinar o defecar— el novelista añade los frutos sombríos del carácter humano, su morbidez y su esplendor. Todo esto deriva de las narraciones (antes amorosas, pastoriles) que lentamente se independizan de sus testigos mayores hasta imponerse como una modalidad de la ficción sobre la ficción. Y es que, al mismo tiempo, la novela esconde, al madurar, una profunda nostalgia por sus orígenes. Siendo ella perfecta en Don Quijote (o en Doktor Faustus, etc.), tiene el derecho a desprender algo de sí misma que evoque sus formas primarias. Toda novela, entonces, sería autónoma por su forma acabada y novedosa, pero también toda novela ansía, rememora sus contornos

Comentarios para El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, 7

[pickwick817 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I trudged through the first part of the book which focused on Don Quixote and his "adventures" without any enjoyment. I liked the second part better, but it featured other characters. I own but have not yet read Sir Thomas Malory's La Morte d'Arthur. I think a comparison of the two, having read Malory first would have been better. We'll see.

[mykl8s · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

 -I really tried to like this one -it's too deep or too old (younger than the Oddyesy) or too Spanish (Lorca is Spanish) or just boring -maybe later, maybe I need to take a class

[shanlizluv · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

One of my favorite stories. I never get tired of this story and this illustrated version is just lovely.

[dhollis_14 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

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[ritabk1966 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

BRILLIANT. I went to see the windmills in Spain after I read the book and stayed in Cervantes place of birth for a month. The Spanish are very proud of Cervantes. Spanish children know quite a lot about this author and book and can critique the novel's concepts in an intelligent way.

[musecure · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I had some mixed feelings about Don Quixote. At times, I was very wrapped up in the story and found it excellent. At other times, I found it too ridiculous or slow paced and would then put the book down for months without any urge to go back to it. Cervantes, nonetheless, has moments of pure genius and my overall feeling is positive.

[iamamro-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

The first novel, and still amazingly fresh. Well worth your time.

[maggieflo_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I know this is a classic of great literature but I cannot finish it. I have read one quarter of the book and I just don't like Don Quixote. I find him to be foolish, stubborn and dangerous. Is this supposed to be a comedy???not sure but I'm giving up.

[lodgemonster_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This book remains one of the finest ever written. The characters are so real that you feel a real connection with them that spans across the centuries. Sancho Panza's unending loyalty despite Quixote's delusions makes him one of the best fictional creations ever. That such a book of such length can remain readable, humorous and enjoyable so many years later (provided you have a good translation) speaks volumes for Cervantes's genius. No praise is high enough for a masterpiece such as this.

[zommbie1 · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

I really didn't enjoy the book. The chapters were to short. It wasn't my sense of humour. I didn't finish it. I just couldn't. I just felt sorry for Don Quixote. He was clearly mad and Sancho was just annoying

[saraprindiville · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Quite long, but the variety of Don Quixote exploits kept my attention. My only complaint is that most of the "interpolated" stories were love stories. I would have liked more variety. Similar to serial novels such as Tom Jones which keep the reader in suspense until the end.

[benuathanasia · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

ZZZzzz.This was moderately painful to get through. Never again. This is probably the one text I would have preferred abridged.

[screwcap · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Although I tried to like Don Quixote, it reminded me too much of the slap-stick humor of Gilbert & Sullivan or the 3 Stooges. Worth reading once to understand references found in other material, but definitely not one of my favorites.

[ljrei77 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

If you take this at face value, it is still a rather good novel. The adventures of Quixote and Sancho are quite hilarious to this day. However, looking beyond the antics of the two this story directly adresses the question of "What is the self and how is it defined?". Is Quixote mad or is he attempting to create a self that is far better than his current situation? Was he justified in forging his "self"? These are the questions that he novel raises but they can be applied to our lives as well. Were we born who we are or have we crafted it? I highly suggest that if you have not started questioning the identity of your "self" you start by reading this book.

[frecked_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This translation by John Rutherford is reading pleasure. Always humourous if occasionally a little uncomfortable from a modern perspective.Through the stories and the mad adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are glimpsed the history, social conditions and attitudes of the time, something missing from my school history lessons (from an English perspective).

[comfypants · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I've read the part one (of two) so far, and it doesn't seem likely that I'll bother with part two. It starts out very promising, with an unexpectedly modern sense of humor. But all the good bits (and all the famous bits) are in the first few hundred pages. Then the book just keeps going for no apparent reason, eventually devolving into a collection of novellas and short stories that have no connection to Don Quixote.

[sarah_rubyred · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I feel I should have got more from this than I did. I will possibly try to read it again with cliff notes and put a bit more of an effort in. I liked the premise, but it just never caught my interest and I gave up at chapter 5, hardly any of the way in.

[helenliz_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

 This is a difficult one to review. Partly that is as it just took me too long to get through it. 4 months reading the same book just means that all I felt on finishing it was relief that I'd made it to the end. However, after having let it stew for a bit, I have come to the conclusion that I'm glad I have read this, and that I enjoyed it, even if that was dulled by the sheer length of the book. Don Quixote is one of those books that is the source of a number of phrases and sayings that are in use, and yet, until now, I'd never read the source from which they spring. Tilting at windmills is a pointless, slightly absurd, exercise, and so is Don Quixote when he attacks the windmills, thinking them to be giants. That is one of a very great number of instances when he appears to disadvantage, not seeing the world as it is, but insisting on seeing it as he imagines it should be. In the first part of the book, the tone is very much that he is mad and that he is to be laughed at. However, as the book progresses and the other characters in the books start to have fun at Don Quixote's expense (the Duke & Duchess being the most obvious examples) then I felt that he was maybe not to be laughed at. He has a sort of nobility of purpose, even if that purpose is the result of something apparently deranged. That purity of heart, if misguided, makes him seem an innocent and the way he is put through make believe trials shifts the reader's sympathies towards him. This shift is also reflected in Sancho Panca's attitude to his master. He seems to start in the same position as us, Don Quixote is mad and a figure of fun, yet by the second book, he is no longer entirely sure what is truth and what is made up. He becomes a faithful squire, supporting his master (for the most part) in all his strange adventures. At times I felt that I was maybe missing out on some background, or could have done with a more heavily annotated edition, in order to understand the background to Spain at this time and the literature of the knight errant that has influenced Don Quixote to set out on his quest. While I was relieved to reach the end, I felt it didn't really do the Don justice. I'm glad I have read this, I just wish I could have got through it a little bit more quickly, such that it felt less like a chore.

[awasha_albadri · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

A great tale about a spanish Knight and his friend in which they embark in all sorts of fun and drama. A wonderful tale filled with imagination and laughter. A tale for children everywhere to read.

[jbd1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Remains one of the best (if not the best) novel ever written.

[amerynth · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I feel like I should throw myself a party having finally finished Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote," which took me about two months to read. It was overall a worthwhile read, even though it sometimes became a bit tedious, it was mostly an interesting book.As most people are probably aware, Don Quixote goes a bit off his rocker, becomes a knight errant and crisscrosses the countryside with his trusty squire Sancho Panza. They get into heaps of trouble while he tilts at windmills, which he believes are dragons, and pining for the love of the Dulcinea de Toboso, whom he believes is enchanted and trapped in a cave. As Don Quixote's reputation spread, people take advantage of his madness for their own amusement. While I felt first portion of the book got a bit repetitive, Cervantes seemed to get better as he went along about putting Don Quixote in new amusing situations. This is definitely one of those classic books I'm happy to have finally read, but that I probably would never read again.

[lisamaria_c · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I read it in translation, so I don't know what a difference that might make. Many parts of this are still hilarious after centuries, some scenes are moving, some magnificent. Talk about iconic? Tilting at windmills, Sancho Panza, Dulcinea del Toboso, a man made mad by reading too many books of chivalry... Its second part even pokes fun at itself--17th century metafiction! If it doesn't get the full five stars, it's because it does have stretches I found dull and pointless and meandering. Just felt at times the joke was extended far too long, with one incident after another repeating itself: Quixote goes on a rampage due to his delusions of chivalry. Victim of his outrage beats him up. Rinse. Repeat... But this is one of the earliest novels, at least in the Western tradition, and still one of the greatest and influential in the Western canon--and for good reason.

[jasonlf · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Because I am not going to add to the literary criticism on this book, a few notes:1. It really is an enormously enjoyable read. If you haven't read it before you should. It is laugh-out-loud funny. A miracle in its construction of theme and variations, fascinating as a literary experiment, a description of madness and wisdom and overall a really fresh novel not some musty "classic".2. There's an argument for reading the two parts separately. They were written a decade a apart, there is nothing in the Second Part that requires remembering anything but the basics of the first -- and even these are repeated for the reader, they are different in important ways (everyone in the Second Part has read the First Part and thus knows Don Quixote, some of them have even read a false Second Part that gives them a false impression of him), and notwithstanding the comments above there is a certain repetition to the book.3. The Edith Grossman translation was outstanding. I also thought the Burton Raffel translation was great, but it was over a decade ago and the book is now in storage so I can't compare the two.bottom line: read it. Really.

[downtownlibrarian · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I read this back in the early seventies in my Great Books of the Western World class at UF, and I remember writing a pretty good paper about it. Sadly, I have no idea which edition or translation, but it is truly one of the great archetypal works.

[booksfordinner · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

One of the 5 greatest (or most important) novels ever written... however, the old "crazy-old-man-attacks-someone-he-thinks-is-someone-else-and-gets-his-butt-kicked-and recovers-for-a-week-then-repeat, got a bit old after 940 pages.Sancho's govenorship was probably my favorite in the whole shebang.This bad boy was read in the following places: home, work, Starbucks, Spain, France, Italy, Newark Airport (twice), my car, and probably a couple other places I'm forgetting.

[meditationesmartini · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

It's not a comic novel, or a romantic tragedy, or a journey into the self, or of course it's all those things, but mostly it's an incredible metanovel, dude. Think about how much thinner this book would be without all the stories people tell in it. Thnk about how many of those stories are false or apocryphal or ludicrously confused, the story equivalent of DQ's many many platfalls that somehow never get old, and then think about how the stories drive the action. How the author gamely steps up for his share of blows. How half the book only exists to show up that Tordesillas dude who wrote a fake sequel, and how that's the same as Don going out and adventuring in the first place - literature is the driving force, and Orlando and all of that is real literature too, of course. This book interacts with the real world in maybe the closest and subtlest way ever, and as the characters get oh-so-close to realizing their fictitious, constructed nature, you stop and go OH SHIT. Here I am with my reading, wasting my life away too. Why? And then you go on doing it, a slave to books just like Quixote, and that is insanity too. but what else can you do? You don't have control; you are fictional. Your books are writing you.

[garypatella · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Don Quixote starts out as a man that is obsessed with the knights of the middle ages, and reads all of the stories about them. He snaps, and thinks that he himself is a great knight. Rides out, takes a squire, and has adventures.There were many funny parts, and I did enjoy reading it. However, it does get to be a bit tedious towards the end. I have no fear of reading a 1,000 page book. But those 1,000 pages should hold my interest throughout. The last 150-200 pages had me impatiently waiting to get to the end. I would recommend it, and it is worth reading. But I did struggle a bit at the end, unlike some other long works (e.g. War and Peace) that hold my interest throughout.

[gaillamontagne · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

The introduction educates the reader of this translation of Don Qixote, that it has been abridged for the modern reader. I enjoyed it, knowing I would never have tried a book like this if were not adapted for readers today. I wanted to have a taste, or feel of this classic just for the experience of it. It is well done for interest, the narrator easy to listen to and edited carefully to give you the meat of the book without unnecessary details that the original writing style included. I would recommend it if you are not a classic purist.

[benedict8-2 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I have listened to the whole book on Audible.com several times. I find it wonderful and worth the time.

[cmbohn · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Well, I'm finished. I'm so glad to say that. Actually, I skipped about 200 pages and went to the end. I may or may not go back and read them, don't care much either way at this point.I have been by turns engrossed and enraged by this book. My kids keep asking me why I am still reading it. I don't really know. Cervantes is an infuriating writer. For the first 200 pages, I didn't really care at all about Don Quixote. He was just this delusional guy that went around doing stupid things. But then I started sort of liking him. Yes, he's crazy, but he is a man of honor. He is completely mistaken in his actions, but he has a good heart.But it just goes on and on and on! I got tired of Sancho Panza somewhere during Volume 2 and almost every time he started talking, I tuned out. Cervantes was using him as the comic sidekick, but I didn't find him funny at all. There were so many long passages of pointless arguments about this and that.One thing I hadn't expected was an almost postmodern twist of Cervantes directly addressing the reader, in the guise of the author. That had a surprisingly modern feel. There was a sort of inside joke, with one of the characters early in Volume 2. Sampson, a neighbor, is telling Don Quixote and Sancho Panza all about this book he has read about them. That was kind of funny. But the humor was not enough to make up for all the long boring spots.I also had a hard time reading it because of the style. The translator of my edition was Tobias Smollett, and it was done in the 18th century. A more modern edition might look more the way we're used to, with paragraphs after quotation marks, and no more of this two or three page paragraphs. It made it even more difficult to read.All in all, I suppose I'm glad I read it, but I'm even more glad I'm done.