5 Lessons from Cervantes

Volume III

By: Oswald Sobrino

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This book is the third volume in 5 Lessons from Cervantes and presents insights from Chapters I through XLI of Part 2 of Cervantes's celebrated novel Don Quixote de La Mancha. (Previous volumes treats Part One of the novel. Volume I treats Chapters I through XIV of Part One; Volume II treats Chapters XV through LII of Part One). A future Volume IV will finish the entire novel. This series has been a personal quest for me just as the adventures of Don Quixote are his personal quest. Many view Cervantes as an unparalleled genius who authored the first modern novel in the West. Over many years, I read portions of his lengthy masterpiece but never made it a priority to finish the entire novel. Now, later in life, I have made it a priority. I am glad that I delayed until I could not only read it carefully and fully but could also write a commentary during my reading. With the commentary, I can preserve the insights of my personal quest in tackling the entire novel. My goal is to share those insights with you the reader while hoping that my commentaries lead you to your own firsthand reading of Don Quixote to savor the full details of all the narrated events and to experience the pleasurable genesis of your own insights. If even a few pursue such a firsthand reading, then my personal quest has borne good fruit. More specifically, this third volume especially highlights the great paradox of the novel: how the same events can be both unreal and real at the same time!