Abstract
Don Quixote is a text conceived for dissemination through printing, yet it still preserves many aspects of orality in its structure. The conflict between written and oral culture, omnipresent in the novel, enables us to account for a whole series of characteristics of Cervantes's masterpiece —such as its peculiar system of textual coherence, the mechanisms of narrative generation, the relationships among characters, the conception of authorial voice, the treatment of literary authority, etc.— which distance it from traditional narrative genres and make of it an enduring classic.
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