Abstract

This article investigates Cervantes’ masterpiece’s inaugural character in modern literature. To do so, we explore the concept of melancholy, central to the Quixote , and argue that this concept can be understood as a structural generator of the modern literary work. The analysis is first performed in the ideological and historical context of the time of Cervantes, the “melancholic age”, then moving on to study the way in which Cervantes has internalised this “objective melancholy” in his construction of the character of Don Quixote and of the literary work itself. Thirdly, Cervantes’ originality is located in a more general ontological history of melancholy, which discovers in it an important key to the archaeology of the present.

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  • De ciertos tópicos filosóficos que en ella se plantean, sino en lo que esta obra representa en tanto que obra literaria, es decir, en su existencia histórica y material, en su “radical historicidad” (Rodríguez, 2003, 405)

  • To do so, we explore the concept of melancholy, central to the Quixote, and argue that this concept can be understood as a structural generator of the modern literary work

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Introduction

De ciertos tópicos filosóficos que en ella se plantean (el humanismo, el conflicto de lo real y lo ideal, la tesis de la libertad, el ethos quijotesco, etc.), sino en lo que esta obra representa en tanto que obra literaria, es decir, en su existencia histórica y material, en su “radical historicidad” (Rodríguez, 2003, 405).

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