Cervantes' Don Quixote

Presents a biographical essay on Miguel de Cervantes and eight works of criticism on his masterpiece, "Don Quixote, " discussing such topics as the work's origins, the character Dulcinea, the history of Spain's libraries, the use of books and literature in the novel, and the novel's "linguistic perspectivism, " and includes "self-portraits" from two of Cervantes' prologues.