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Don Quixote is a foundation point for the modern novel and for stories about delusion, ambition, and dignity.
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Here, anger means refusal: the injury, limit, danger, or convention this person would not leave alone. The proof is what they created next and what changed because it existed.
War, captivity, poverty, disappointment, and a late, difficult writing life gave Miguel de Cervantes no clean heroic story about his own circumstances.
He created Don Quixote, turning failed ideals, delusion, dignity, cruelty, comedy, and companionship into a new kind of novel.
The strange knight outlived the century that produced him. Frustrated ambition became foundational literary architecture.
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A difficult life of war, captivity, poverty, and late-career writing produced a comic novel that changed fiction.