![]() ![]() While he was asleep, his friend the priest and others raided his library and piled almost all of his books out in the yard for burning, in a bid to rescue him from his madness. He was taken home on a neighbour’s donkey, and took to his bed to recover. One of the group them broke his lance and used it to beat him black and blue. Just as he was charging one of them, his horse Rocinante tripped and fell. This assures the reader that the history of Don Quixote is true and unexaggerated.In the previous episode, Don Quixote had tried ineffectively to stop a youth being beaten, and picked a fight with a party of merchants from Toledo. To insure the objectivity of the storyteller, the author is a Moor, for an infidel would try very hard to understate the achievements of a Spaniard. In this chapter, Cervantes introduces the device of a narrator who steps in and out of his story as it it were a piece of stagecraft. ![]() "What me no gentleman?" he cries and is ready to kill Don Quixote to defend his honor. The Biscainer has a quixotic idea of his gentility which the rest of the world would disagree with. He spares the Biscainer's life, though only after he promises to present himself to the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso, who shall dispose of him as she desires.Ĭervantes depicts the struggle between Don Quixote and the Basque squire as an epic combat between equals. ![]() By mere coincidence it happens to be the history of Don Quixote, and the second book of the manuscript begins with the fight between the knight and the Biscainer, which he sets down exactly as Cid Hamet has written it.īy fortunate mistakes, the Don wins the duel, stunning his adversary with a tremendous blow. In his Moorish travels, however, the author has discovered an old manuscript written in Arabic by a historian named Cid Hamet Benegali. The author intercedes here, explaining that the history of the famed knight of La Mancha has been vexedly cut off at this point where the two combatants are about to deliver each other a mortal blow. ![]()
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