Don Quijote: jiná modernita

• Authors: Sánchez Fernández Juan Antonio

Title variants

EN

Don Quijote: another modernity

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Is it possible to read Don Quijote de la Mancha as a work representing modernity, and if so, in which sense? So sounds the question that this essay tries to answer. On the one hand, Close has warned about the problems of the romantic reading of Don Quijote, like, for instance, to assert that the book symbolizes Spain or an epoch. But, on the other hand, Cervantesʼ major work is in contact, through Huarte de San Juan, with the problem of truth, developed by renaissance thought in 16. century. That problem of truth, and the origin of knowledge criticism, is interpreted by Kundera as characteristic of modernity, even if different to the tradition founded by Descartes.

Keywords

CS

Quijote; Cervantes; Descartes; Kundera; román; modernita; skepticismus; perspektivismus; pravda

EN

Quijote; Cervantes; Descartes; Kundera; novel; modernity; scepticism; perspectivism; truth

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 52
• Pages: 116-124

Contributors

author

Sánchez Fernández Juan Antonio

• Univerzita Karlova