Magic Realism in Cervantes: Don Quixote as Seen Through Tom Sawyer and The Idiot

"Magic" Realism in Cervantes: Don Quixote as Seen Through Tom Sawyer and The Idiot explores the enduring impact of Cervantes' Don Quixote through the works of Mark Twain and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The essay draws on the author's conversations with Ernest Hemingway about the significance of Mark Twain, highlighting parallels between Twain's protagonists and Cervantes' iconic knight-errant. The thesis asserts that Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dostoevsky's The Idiot, extend ...