The complete online text of The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes.

Through his authorship of Don Quixote and other lesser known works, Miguel de Cervantes has had an inestimable impact on the development of modern fiction. Don Quixote represents the first extended prose narrative in European literature in which characte...

The Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) is the greatest novelist of the Spanish language. His masterpiece, "Don Quixote," is one of the most important and influential books in the history of the novel. Miguel de Cervantes was born in...

Diana de Armas Wilson. Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-19-816005-4. During the first week of my course on Cervantes, I mention to students that had the author of Don...

Parallel episodes in Rabelais's 'Gargantua' and Cervantes's 'Don Quijote' reveal the way the novel chooses to defy the ethic of timing. It achieves this by playing with the tenses of verbs and by exploiting the illogic of proverbial speech. The narrativization of tense and...