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Cervantes' greatest work, , is an amazing parody with a realistic idea. is a country gentleman, an enthusiastic visionary crazed by his reading of romances of chivalry, who rides forth to defend the oppressed and to right wrongs. The theme of the book, in brief, ....

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.... decide to force him to forget his wild fancy and to reintegrate himself into his former life. The "knight" insists upon following his calling, but at the end of the first part of the book they make him return to his home by means of a sly stratagem. In the second part the hidalgo leaves for the third time and alternately gives indication of folly and of wisdom in a dazzling array of artistic inventions. But now even his enemies force him to abandon his endeavors. finally recognizes that romances of chivalry are mere lying inventions, but upon recovering the clarity of his mind, he loses his life. This idea is very realistic because of its moder ....