The Madness of Don Quixote

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The book is certainly treating the madness as a goof and it was written with that in mind. I don't know that the book stands up to a strict scrutiny of like modern understandings of mental health. There's a lot of apparently 20th century Freudian critique of this book, which I don't even know what to do with that stuff.

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.

These episodes cover Chapters 1-14.

In Episode 1, we do some table-setting on the author and translation, and then we dive into the first four chapters of the story. In Episode 2, our hero recruits the squire Sancho Panza and goes tilting after some windmills. Also we hear a whole story about a guy who died from lovesickness.

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