Don Quixote | Literary Qualities
Such major modern novelists as Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and Leo Tolstoy have proclaimed Don Quixote as the first modern novel. Exploring many issues relevant to the form of the novel itself, the book questions the rules under which a work of fiction is written. In Cervantes's novel, the narrator's identity is veiled in mystery. Initially, the narrator seems to be Cervantes, but, in the middle of a fight between Don Quixote and a Basque, an "editor" interrupts the narration to explain that "the author of this history left the battle in suspense at this critical point,...
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