Don Quixote
A parody of chivalric romance becomes the first modern novel.
- When
- —
- Duration
- 10 years
- Known to
- ± 1 year
- Era
- Early Modern, Holocene
Cervantes publishes the first part in 1605 and the second in 1615, in which the characters have read the first part and comment on it. Its subject is the gap between how the world is and how books say it is, and it treats its protagonist with sympathy rather than only ridicule. It is routinely described as the first modern novel and remains among the most translated books in the world.