Don Quixote in His Labyrinth: Carnivalesque Folly, Lust, and Chaos at the Inn.
Cervantes, already anticipating Borges, is the great inventor of labyrinths in Hispanic literature. In the intricately labyrinthine space that Juan Palomeque’s inn encloses, myriad interlaced narrative threads converge. Many are the diverse narrative stories that, by a seemingly providential stroke...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 92; no. 4; pp. 627 - 641 |
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