Don Quijote de la Mancha

An inexhaustible classic, which continues to speak to us as it did at the time of its first publication.

Edited by Florencio Sevilla Arroyo, Professor of Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid

A success since its publication in two parts (1605 and 1615), Don Quixote de la Mancha is almost certainly the greatest novel ever written. It tells the story of a nobleman who, driven mad by excessive reading, travels through Spain in search of adventure, justice, and glory. The multiple interpretations of the work reflect its richness of meaning and content: a critique of chivalric novels, the contrast between realism and idealism, or a satire of courtly illusions. With the amusing adventures of its ingenious protagonist, Cervantes portrayed the complexity of the human condition and gave literary art its highest expression.

This edition, overseen by Florencio Sevilla Arroyo, Professor of Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid, includes an introduction that contextualizes the work, a critical apparatus, a chronology, and an essential bibliography, as well as discussion proposals around the reading.