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The Adventures of Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
I read this book so long ago. I am now revisiting it as an audio book in Italian (my second language). The irony! The wit! The endless shaggy dog story until VOILA' (ok I know that is French) the pieces start coming together. The errant knight is actually fulfilling his mission and doing good, bringing those back together in love who had separated in anger, helping those find their meaning in life, allowing them to see they had been able to survive their travails.... MEANWHILE, all this happens as the question of what is true and real, or what is fiction or creation of reality stymies the bystanders and secondary characters, who actually seem to be like the chorus in Greek tragedies. It is a marvel, so modern that it is freaky. The world has become this actor's stage and all around him become part of the theater of life, and they cannot resist, some even resign themselves to having lived a bit differently. Don Q careens into lives randomly chaotically to mysteriously pick through chaos and discover complexity and meaning. What a delight, like having a box set of cliff hanger episodes.... 35 hrs. of stories within stories and plot twists and villans and "frienemies" twisted male 'thinking', women trying to get on with their lives as they reason with the men, to no avail many of the times... One of the rare examples of the Rinascimento in Spain.