fiction.wikisort.org - CharacterAlonso Quijano (Spanish: [aˈlonso kiˈxano]; spelled Quixano in English and in the Spanish of Cervantes' day, pronounced [aˈlons̺o kiˈʃano]) is the personal name of the famous fictional hidalgo (lowest nobility caste) who is better known as Don Quijote, a name he invents after either falling into or pretending madness (insanity). Alonso Quijano/Don Quijote is the leading character of the 1605/1615 novel Don Quijote de la Mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Fictional character
At the outset of the work (Chapter 1 of Part I) we are informed that there is confusion about what his name is. Some (imaginary) authors, the text says, disagree about whether his name was Quijada ("jaw") or Quesada, although by reasoning ("conjeturas verosímiles") one could arrive at the name Quijana. At this point, Quijano is not even mentioned as a possibility, nor is Alonso, hinting the reader into one of the most notable yet purposefully obfuscated examples of an unreliable narrator. In Chapter 49 of Part I he tells us that he was a direct descendant of Gutierre Quijada. His "real" name of Alonso Quijano is only revealed (invented) in the last chapter of Part II, and with the stated purpose of demonstrating the falseness of the spurious Part II of the pseudonymous Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, in which work the protagonist is Martín Quijada.
Knights in the chivalric books Alonso Quijano read, which reading caused his madness, have nicknames. In Chapter 19 of Part I his squire Sancho Panza invents his first nickname, the hard-to-translate "Caballero de la Triste Figura": knight of miserable (triste) appearance (figura). Sancho explains its meaning: Don Quijote is the worst-looking man he has ever seen, thin from hunger and missing most of his teeth. After an encounter with lions, Don Quijote himself invents his second nickname, "Knight of the Lions", in Part II, Chapter 17. Both titles reference famous knights: Ysaie le Triste, the son of Tristan and Iseult, and Yvain, the Knight of the Lion.
Physical characteristics
Besides the above comment of Sancho, we find the following descriptions of him:
- His age was about 50, with a solid (recio) complexion, his flesh shriveled (seco), a gaunt face. (Part I, Chapter 1)
- He was tall, a shrunken (seco) face, long, wrinkled arms and legs, half bald, his nose like that of an eagle, but curved, and with a large and droopy moustache. (Part II, Chapter 14)
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- The Comical History of Don Quixote (1694 play)
- Double Falsehood (1727 play)
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- Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (1743)
- Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho (1761 opera)
- Sancho Pança dans son isle (1762 opera)
- Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace (1771 opera)
- Don Quixote (1898 opera)
- Don Quichotte (1910 opera)
- Man of La Mancha (1964 musical, "The Impossible Dream" song)
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- I, Don Quixote (1959 teleplay)
- Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha (1980 series)
- The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda (1989 series)
- Don Quixote (2011 series)
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- Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
- Amadís de Gaula
- List of works influenced by Don Quixote
- Quixotism
- "The Truth about Sancho Panza" (1931 short story)
- "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (1939 short story)
- Monsignor Quixote (1982 novel)
- Super Don Quix-ote (1984 video game)
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На других языках
- [en] Alonso Quijano
[es] Don Quijote (personaje)
Alonso Quijano es el nombre del hidalgo don Quijote, protagonista de la novela Don Quijote de la Mancha, escrita por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, que ya al inicio de la obra explica que Alonso Quijano «quiso ponerse nombre a sí mismo, y en este pensamiento duró otros ocho días, y al cabo se vino a llamar don Quijote. [...] Quiso, como buen caballero, añadir al suyo el nombre de su patria y llamarse "don Quijote de la Mancha", con que a su parecer declaraba muy al vivo su linaje y patria, y la honraba».[1]
[fr] Alonso Quichano
Alonso Quijano[N 1], francisé Alonso Quichano, est le véritable nom de l'hidalgo Don Quichotte, personnage de fiction espagnol du roman Don Quichotte.
[it] Alonso Chisciano
Alonso Chisciano (Alonso Quijano), meglio conosciuto come don Chisciotte della Mancia (in spagnolo don Quijote de la Mancha), è un personaggio letterario, protagonista del romanzo in due parti L'ingegnoso hidalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia dello scrittore spagnolo Miguel de Cervantes. Inizialmente un nobile di basso rango di campagna, lettore fanatico di romanzi cavallereschi, impazzisce e poi assume il nome di don Chisciotte; trascinando sé stesso e quello che diverrà il suo scudiero, il contadino Sancio Panza, in una serie di avventure paradossali che quasi sempre avranno un triste epilogo.
[ru] Дон Кихот
Дон Кихо́т (исп. Don Quijote, в средневековой испанской орфографии — Don Quixote) — центральный образ романа Мигеля де Сервантеса (1547—1616) «Хитроумный идальго Дон Кихот Ламанчский» (исп. El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha) — одного из наиболее популярных произведений мировой литературы.
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