Designed as a 'reading guide' this book provides a three-tiered approach to the literary
fabric of Cervantes' masterpiece: story narrators characters style and structure. Its three
major divisions-The Exemplary Story The Quixotic Fiction The Mythical Don Quixote trace and
analyze episode by episode the hero's transformation from a 'clinical' case of literary
insanity and chivalric folly through the artifice of interlocking fictions that sustain his
rise to mock in Part I to mythical status as redemptive hero of social satire in Part II.
