Don Quixote | On the Reading and Interpretation of Don Quixote
Unamuno argues that Cervantes "extracted Don Quixote from the soul of his people and from the soul of all humanity."
[Today], there is scarcely a literature that yields less individual and more insipid works than that of Spain, and there is scarcely a cultured nation—or one that passes for such—where there is such a manifest incapacity for philosophy.
[This] philosophical incapacity which Spain has always shown, as well as a certain poetic incapacity—poetry is not the same as literature—has allowed a host of pedants and spiritual sluggards, who constitute what might be called the school of the Cervantist Masora, to fall upon Don Quixote.
The Masora was, as the reader will...
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