445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
The History of Literature
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
Riaqi: cervantes had some personal disappointments that helped to clarify his beliefs. After a number of attempts to write, perhaps in the more grandiose style of his age, suddenly something clicked, and he started writing this kind of biting satire,. Riaqi: He invented thereby the modern way that we come to expect that fiction can deal with diffring character inther different perspective. N why even that accounts for both why he became such a powerful, extraordinarily influential literary source as well as the secret sauce in there, that i find so compelling.
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