The Meaning of Don Quixote According to René Girard

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[O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel]

Excellent, and I really like the point that Quixote is a distant and fictional character for Cervantes, though by the time of Flaubert's Bovary, the character described is someone living down the street, suggesting that the problems Girard noted were coming to define everyday life. As always, great work from Geoffrey!

[contrastprinciple]

Simon Leys has an interesting discussion about the meaning of Don Quixote in his book "The hall of uselessness."

[omegavlx]

Don Quixote is literally a radicalized gamer indeed

[zenden]

"One must live life in a genuine way, passionately, in spite of what other people think. That is the central tenet of "Don Quixote, " according to Professor Ilan Stavans"
If you collide that with the 'gamer in the basement' meme it's terribly attenuation of young men's life into febrile virtual existence....
Zuck's Bugs...
At least charging at a windmill was making a dent on the universe, compared to being a zombified 11:03 battery in the Matrix... 😮

[GrafWattenburg]

Girard looks so much like Phil Leotardo from the Sopranos..

[tomaszbethell]

He's not a knight though until he becomes one

[christopherwillson]

I suspect people are just into Girard as a way to suck up to Peter Thiel.