It's so fascinating to know that the very first modern novel, Don Quixote (1605) plays with and subverts through parody and pastiche the prevailing literary conventions of the seventeenth century and earlier through the mode of magical realism. Social expectations are also turned on their heads to the point Don Quixote is ironically treated critically as proto-postmodern. Like the topic of the video, Cervantes addresses the disjuncture between reality and fantasy (delusion).
It's so fascinating to know that the very first modern novel, Don Quixote (1605) plays with and subverts through parody and pastiche the prevailing literary conventions of the seventeenth century and earlier through the mode of magical realism. Social expectations are also turned on their heads to the point Don Quixote is ironically treated critically as proto-postmodern. Like the topic of the video, Cervantes addresses the disjuncture between reality and fantasy (delusion).