Meditations on QuixoteUniversity of Illinois Press, 2000 - 192 pagine """One of the essential experiences, the greatest perhaps, is Cervantes. . . . Alas! If only we knew with certainty the secret of Cervantes' style, of his manner of approaching things, we would have found out everything.""In Meditations on Quixote, Jos Ortega y Gasset presents a powerful case for integrating literature into experience. Through a series of ""essays in intellectual love,"" Ortega explores the aim of philosophy: to carry a given fact (a person, a book, a landscape, an error, a sorrow) by the shortest route to its fullest significance. He then considers how literature, specifically Cervantes, contributes to realizing this aim.Arguing that ""we are all heroes in some measure,"" that ""heroism lies dormant everywhere as a possibility,"" and that ""the will to be oneself is heroism,"" Ortega urges us to integrate the possible into our conception of the real. He presents Quixote as a profound book, full of references and allusions to the universal meaning of life, a book that presents with maximum intensity the particular mode of human existence that is peculiarly Spanish. A call to his fellow Spaniards to join him in forging a new Spain, Ortega's Meditations on Quixote is also an invitation to his fellow humans to take up the challenge of literature, opening our minds and seeking all-embracing connections with the world and its people." |
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Sommario
TRANSLATORS NOTE | 7 |
PROLOGUE FOR AMERICAN READERS JULIÁN MARÍAS | 9 |
To the Reader | 31 |
Preliminary Meditation | 55 |
THE FOREST AJORI | 59 |
DEPTH AND SURFACE | 61 |
STREAMS AND ORIOLES | 64 |
WORLDS BEYOND | 67 |
EXEMPLARY NOVELS | 114 |
THE EPIC | 118 |
POETRY OF THE PAST | 120 |
THE BARD | 124 |
HELEN AND MADAME BOVARY | 126 |
THE MYTH LEAVEN OF HISTORY | 128 |
BOOKS OF CHIVALRY | 130 |
MASTER PEDROS PUPPET SHOW | 133 |
THE RESTORATION AND ERUDITION | 70 |
MEDITERRANEAN CULTURE | 74 |
WHAT A CAPTAIN SAID TO GOETHE | 79 |
THE PANTHER OR ON SENSISM | 82 |
THINGS AND THEIR MEANING | 87 |
THE CONCEPT | 91 |
CULTURESECURITY | 94 |
LIGHT AS AN IMPERATIVE | 97 |
INTEGRATION | 100 |
PARABLE | 104 |
CRITICISM AS PATRIOTISM | 105 |
A Short Treatise on the Novel | 111 |
LITERARY GENRES | 112 |
POETRY AND REALITY | 135 |
REALITY LEAVEN OF THE MYTH | 138 |
THE WINDMILLS | 141 |
REALISTIC POETRY | 143 |
MIME | 146 |
THE HERO | 148 |
INTERVENTION OF LYRICISM | 150 |
TRAGEDY | 152 |
COMEDY | 156 |
TRAGICOMEDY | 160 |
FLAUBERT CERVANTES DARWIN | 162 |
NOTES BY JULIÁN MARÍAS | 166 |
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