Why should you read "Don Quixote"? - Ilan Stavans
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2018
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Mounting his skinny steed, Don Quixote charges an army of giants. It is his duty to vanquish these behemoths in the name of his beloved lady, Dulcinea. There’s only one problem: the giants are merely windmills. What is it about this tale of the clumsy yet valiant knight that makes it so beloved? Ilan Stavans investigates.
Lesson by Ilan Stavans, directed by Avi Ofer.
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fathul khabirrprayoga NO ONE CARES
I can't ... It's not school approved
through deliberate practice
TED-Ed I run an expressive channel on here.
TED-Ed by mixing everything I enjoy and see if I can make a story out of it
Who’s here after watching the video of that guy reading alll the books Joe from “You” recommended?
Yesss hahaha
Us
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meee
Were living the same simulation 😂
I first read Don Quixote when I was fifteen, I have reread it every five years and the novel keeps changing as I pass through life. I am sixty nine and look forward to reading my old friend next year. It's true meaning is almost within grasp.
Beautifully said.
I have a similar thing with “to kill a mockingbird”
I read it for the first time in my late sixties
after reading that Dostoevsky said if there is any proof of a divine omnipotence, its cervantes "Don Quiote"
Read it 3 times, but last year I listen to it...is easier
Ive done this with the little prince and the alchemist
"I know who I am and who I can be if I choose "- Don Quixote.
Just got here cuz one of Seventeen's song in their album is entitled "Don Quixote" and im so curious as to why they name that song like this and now I totally understand.
"Don Quixote argues that our imagination greatly informs our actions, making us capable of change, and, indeed, making us human."
That’s not the message of the book, by any means
@@JulioLeonFandinho But it has several messages one if I remember well was that of the freedom or moral decline of Spain at that time
@@kalm6778 It portraits many social types from that time, I don't think you can say one of the messages is that Spain was declining. It definitely criticizes aristocracy, but regular people too, although Cervantes was very careful in showing that within regular people you could always find good people... the salt of the Earth, we may say so. He was tough with Catholic church, but also with other social groups of the time, like lawyers... but at the same time he defended laws, for instance when Don Quixote frees the galley slaves. At first you think it's well done, because those people are convicted to a rowed ship, but then you realize that they were condemned because they were criminals, so, Don Quixote apparent justice act was in fact, appalling...
And one of the points of the huge success of the novel in all Europe back then is that what Cervantes was describing in Spain, was happening in the other countries as well, if not exactly the same, probably worst... people realized that.
The book is universal because all the issues treated in it happened everywhere. You can tell that many of those issues are still happening today. The book is still new, it's amazing.
But the main message, the more general and abstract/philosophical message is precisely that an excess of 'imagination', uncontrolled idealism, always ends in a complete disaster. Cervantes wasn't an idealist at all. Some authors tried to connected him with Erasmus and humanism, but Cervantes thinking was, in fact, the opposite of that. He was a realistic man. It was during romanticism when many people started to say that El Quixote was a defense of idealism. Nothing further from reality
@@JulioLeonFandinho Y sin embargo; a la muerte del hidalgo, Sancho ruega a su maestro que vuelvan al camino; y así el realista se aferra al idealismo mientras el idealista acepta la realidad. No hay duda en que el mensaje realista está ahí; pero comprendo que los idealistas también encuentren inspiración en el libro. Yo creo que en ultima instancia Cervantes aboga por un equilibrio o cuanto menos una coexistencia de ambos aspectos. El idealista no puede cambiar el mundo en el que se encuentra, por muchos molinos contra los que cargue; pero al mismo tiempo es el único capaz de ver verdades que los acérrimos realistas son incapaces de ver. Yo casi lo definiría como una defensa del idealismo desde un punto de vista relista... si es que eso tiene algún sentido XDD
En verdad creo que si Cervantes hubiese abogado por un punto de vista puramente realista, Quijote hubiese muerto apaleado y desprovisto de gloria en una cuneta; y no como una trágica y melancólica figura que muere feliz y cuerdo habiendo sido capaz de inspirar su idealismo a una futura generación personificada en Sancho...
No se, es lo que a priori me transmite a mi XDD
@Jefferson Cortez
Definitely not the message of the book. The whole book was a harsh criticism of idealism.
Specially the end where Alonzo Quijano came to his sense and criticized his insanity during the time he was Don Quijote.
Good explanation... but the animation is what really takes the cake. Very very cute
@Drake Barnes Don't you mean Quentin Blake's?
Like the redbull ads I love it
Picasso
I like the spider.
Somehow it only gives.
We ending the Dream of the Limbus with this one 😭
MANAGER ESQUIRE, WHERE IN THE WORLD HAS THOU GONE?!?!?!??
Was searching for the uncover pm fam glad i found them quickly
The odyssey is our sleeper agents
"An elderly man goes insane reading comic books and becomes convinced he is a superhero." - basically the premise of the bestselling book of all time.
He didn't read comics but novels of heroic knights. But my teacher told us that one of the reasons why the novel never loses validity or get old is that it can be extrapolated to any epoch
Drunkrobot you don’t get it judging by your “in a nutshell” take of the book
Touche'
Yeah, but this was the first one. This is like "Columbus arrival in 1492? Who cares? I can also go to America from Europe easily now...."
@@Nonius9 that's not it. El Quijote is a masterpiece by its own. Not only because it is the first of its own, but because it has so many layers and it is so well written that it is considered the best of all time by many academics.
Spanish, had to read Don Quijote de la Mancha last year for my literature class and let me tell you something: it’s beautiful. I cried so much when I finished the book... it makes you want to live according to your moral code, doing good and being yourself. The ending is bittersweet: sad ending for a good story, but isn’t life like that?
Don Quixote is a lunatic.
It's not Don Quixote who's the lunatic. It's the world that is crazy.
@@ramonalejandrosuare cant disagree with that
My recollection is he dies. His deathbed conversation with Sancho is the most poignant and perhaps most meaningful part of the book. How is there a sequel?
Exactly! Or not crazy enough. Cervantes was also criticizing the Spanish of his time for not reading or traveling enough.
seventeen changed my life.....after listening to their song called Don Quixote I'm actually interested to read the book
I'm pretty sure carats searched Don Quixote so much that UA-cam recommended this video😂😂 it's my favorite song from the new album ahh!! Who is your bias?
lol 🤣 I clicked this video (suggested to me), and wonder if I’ll see a Carat’s comment 🤣
my bias is Wonwoo 💖
@@jinriepark7868 awesome!! Hehe my bias is woozi
so fun to see carats here!!
Agreee
i really wasn't expecting carats in the comments
I'm still only about 15 chapters into it, but the one thing I can say I've taken from it so far is that there always have been and always will be people who insist they were born in the wrong era. This begs the conclusion that there's nothing wrong with the time you're born into, but rather what you decide to do in that time.
Beautifully said!
“It is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.” - Brandon Sanderson
@@TheCrescentKing yeah saying this during covid haha
The wisdom you harbour.❤️❤️❤️. Well said.
“Why You Should Read Don Quixote”
Because it’s hilarious.
Completely agreed!
Yeeeees
So much cringe though.
The 1st part anyways
I mean, the sick burns that Cervantes throws at Quixote alone…
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Woah is this a sign, I was literally scrolling through yt after streaming SEVENTEEN's DON QUIXOTE song
*The Intro music always gets my juices flowing*
Do u know the name of the Spanish back track used
maybe, its gratitude by amin toofani...!
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I've never read it, never had a desire to, I'll admit that I had a preconceived notion about it that set my mind never to but now I'd like to read it! Thanks TED-Ed.
Why?
True! I also never wanted to read it before seeing this video. I always thought it was a overrated book.
It’s a beautiful book. There’s so much meaning in everything. In school you have to read it and I learned that whatever society tells you, even when something seems imposible, you can face the wind mills
Back in high school they forced us to read this book. I hated it with a passion, I couldn't finish the first page.
The exams were near and I refused to read it, my mom offered to read it out loud for me, I said yes. After the first chapter I realized I wasn't even understanding anything the words said.
My native Spanish is very different from Spain's Spanish, and it's even more different than Spain's 1600's Spanish.
I gave up, did the exams anyways and never read it.
I think this book really killed any desire for me to read books. Six or seven years passed until I read the first book since my failed attempt at Don Quijote, I read Nietzche El Anticristo, I kept it hidden from my parents since they're deeply religious.
Eight more years have passed since I read that and I've now created for me the habit of reading, it is so wonderful that I regret all those years wasted.
Maybe someday I'll read Don Quijote.
Isaac Campos all that to tell us that.
Ahmmm...just gonna share the reason that I am here because I wanted to know what Seventeen's song entitled Don Quixote means
Here after Seventeen released a song about Don Quixote~🔥
Recommended after watching John Fish reading all the books Joe from “You” recommended
Same
Same here, thats wacky
Man i thought i was unique for coming for these books🤣
Could you please name them?
Same one year later
I read this in high school for my Spanish literature class. Everyone thinks it's too boring or long to read, but it's completely worth it. Hopefully this video makes people give it a chance. Beautiful
I find this book funny..
What is meta-awareness? How is it included in the second volume of Don Quixote?
@@angelswrld. uh I'm three months late but I hope you need the explanation regardless lol. Don Quijote and Sancho Panza, in the second book, encounter people that have read the first book and try to mess with them to 'recreate' and experience in real life what they read in said first book. They also make some reference (I don't remember how) to the false second part, published to make fun of the official first book (el Quijote de Avellaneda). See, Cervantes had some beef with Lope de Vega (another famous Spaniard author) so it is said that he's the author of the second false novel; he uses it to insult both cervantes and his work, and Cervantes retorts with the official second part
I suggest using an audiobook and following along on hard copy. Then you'll have momentum.
it is boring and this video is a better not boring version of the book ))
i listened to svt's don quixote many times that this got recommended in my youtube
The algorithm brought me here after listening to the song "Don Quixote" by K-pop group named SEVENTEEN. Now I'm excited to actually read it, thank you for the wonderful presentation.
I was thinking searching what is Don Quixote these days but YT offered to me instead 😂
Same! ”Don Quixote” is my favorite song on the album so I’m happy to learn a bit of backstory to it ;)
Omg me too
I was wondering why they named it don quixote😂
Every time I hear the name Don Quixote, I can hear Mingyu 😂 MY HEADS UP, I keep 'em high~
Same here
I feel like Don Quixote is a fantastic novel to read and explore for such an idealistic generation as the one I am in, Gen Z/Millenials. The novel offers a provoking dissection of both the potential of idealism and romanticism to be a boon to an individual’s world outlook and an inherently cynical society, as well as the drawbacks of less grounded thought and a general lack of realism. Super cool :)
Don Quixote was the original Social Justice Warrior radicalized by Academia.
You’re funny “idealistic generation”. Good one!!
@@marcopolo9146 what do you mean by that (genuinely curious)?
Very well said!
Great insight
“If you don't laugh reading Don Quixote, you're not reading it properly”
- Mario Vargas Llosa.
Nice!
Most boring book I have ever read
@@filipljubicic1268 or did you?
I'm a keen reader and I understand why people found it funny, but reading in ancient Spanish while getting on with a wicked humour can make it boring. That's why they should read it by the development, hidden messages, plot... Bcs it is a try masterpiece
@@jaimes.5314 The aancient Spanish can sometimes be difficult, but if you manage to immerse yourself in the book you will find the best tragicomedy that can exist in the world.
This is recommended to me because of seventeen's new song called don quixote 😭😭
I thought I'm the only one 🤣😭
Omg same!
“You were a fine Knight, Don Quixote” Rest in peace Luis Sera
*"It's game time"*
My literature textbook has this story, as an excerpt and I just studied it a few days ago. It was good, hilarious and sarcastic, I actually want to buy the book now
Nổi tiếng quá có trong sách Ngữ văn luôn :))
@@thanhbinhtruong1986 Đúng rồi.
Yep, mới học mấy tuần nay. Lũ bạn cứ cho là bài này nhảm không cảm nhận được nhiều như văn học Việt nhưng tui thấy nó cũng không đến nỗi tệ, hoặc do tụi nó không hợp với mấy chuyện này
My classmates laughed a lot. My teacher said it was a very meaningful and funny story, but I (and all my classmates, I think) found it funny more. LOL
Linh Lê there’s a free version on apple
The most important message from this book is “Vivir loco, morir cuerdo!” Which means live out your best life with no regret, only regret when you are about to die. Quijote died regretting acting on illusions and came to his senses on his last minutes but everyone else whom had been his acquaintance turned like him, with dreams and aspirations of being their greatest self and wanting Quijote to go back to his old self, the roles are reversed. You also forgot to mention how the second half was published under a fake Arabic author whom he created to avoid conflict with the church. Cervantes was just a straight genius.
Wow! You know alot about this
I'm sorry to tell you but you did not understand anything
Lol that’s not what that means at all 😂😭
You didn’t have to spoil the ending
no, its more a criticism of idealizing knights and medieval chivalry
I LOVE THE VIDEO! Who's here after don quixote became their favorite song? 👍✨
this video suddenly come to my timeline.. maybe because I heard "don quixote"
A song from Korean group "Seventeen"
I would read it but im far too busy fighting these damn giants
I'm pretty those are windmills, not giants.
Good' un
UA-cam sending me here for streaming newly released, Don Quixote by SEVENTEEN
Here from listening to Don Quixote by SEVENTEEN. So curious what the tale is about.
Don Quixote: LIMBUS COMPANYYYYYY!!!
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Don Quixote sounds like SVSSS of fantasy novels, ngl. who's here after hearing 17s' Don Quixote. fits the vibe, perfectly
Joe brought me here
12. same 🙈🙈
Joe who?
@@hansolo1983 joe mama
oofy damn you really did it to em
Nnnn had to do it to em 😂 👌
Im here because youtube suggested it but I clicked the video because of the don quixote song of seventeen hehe
I'm here because I've heard Don Quixote in Seventeen's Face of the Sun album. Wow. Gotta read this novel!
I’m here cause of an artist named p type lol
"En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero..."
Those first words of the original text in spanish always remind me of my first lecture of the book, i spent the whole morning reading and didn't
pay attention to any of my classes, i was completely catched by Don Quijote's epic adventures and heroic actions. That was one of the happiest
mornings in my entire life.
Sebastian T. Those words are just so epic. You know is gonna be a good read when it starts like that
Todo un capo el Quijote
not this ending up in my recommended after listening to seventeen's new b-side Don Quixote >>
why..? why im here? oh.. it's bcs seventeen face the sun side-track
Im here after listening to svt's don quixote.
Same
Not me who clicked this because of Seventeen K-pop group with Don Quixote song title.
Only Carats can relate.
I was curious of don quixote because of seventeen.
Dino become don quixote
so come and call me don quixote~
I recommend you to read Don Quixote while listening to Don Quixote by Seventeen
Why you should read Don Quixote: Because Cervantes had an elegant touch of subtle sarcasm using the words he wrote to describe the frivolities of humanity. The guy was a sublime genius.
It is very interesting to read it and to know both the time that Spain was passing through in the 17th century, and the life that Cervantes had (which is impressive). I read it as a teenager while I was studying literature (since it is almost 'mandatory' to at least know it in depth), the story grabs you little by little and doesn't let go until the end.
Don Quixote will always be timeless because the feeling and what it transmits is recognizable in every human being. It is the force of love.
summoned the whole caratland population
lol i came here after their live performance of don quixote😂
i was here bcs seventeen release song, and the title is “don quixote”😃
They wrote a book on the guy from "One Piece"
Doflamingo
Finally someone 😂
Was looking for One Piece reference in the comment section XD
@@vaibhav1180 a man of culture
Lmao. Its interesting to think that oda possiblly named the character after this book
I get to know about it from Seventeen's song
Kpop group Seventeen introduced me to Don Quixote but I have nooo idea what don quixote means so maybe youtube recommended me this to let me know what don quixote means
Now I understand the message SEVENTEEN was portraying 😭😭
F no they're ruining it
Which songM
@@alonsor.n2279 don quixote by seventeen
Don't Quixote was for Albert Einstein the best character that affected him personally... for these who finish reading the novel don't forget to watch the movie "Man of lamansha": to dream the impossible dream.
Don Quixote changed my life
He teached me that it's really crazy to be dreamer and a moral person in a hateful world BUT it will be worthy. When I finished the novel I missed Don Quixote very much and I cried. It was the same feeling when you farewell a great friend
r/boneappletea
moh I know that feeling
It's Man of La Mancha*
@@GameyRaccoon r/ihavereddit
@@fillemorte dont necro
when one of your favourite Kpop artist(Seventeen) makes you interested in reading, you know that it's a good decision to stan them
I love that they made REmake 4's Luis into an admirer of don quixote.
I know I got this recommended because of seventeen don quixote 😭💀
I see my fellow carats here. 🔥
Here after knowing one of seventeen song have the same title:)
come here just because seventeen having this as their title song
wow this is interesting. I listened to Seventeen's new album and now UA-cam recommends this video.
So far I have read every single one of your recommended books. Thank you so mouch for sharing these! I can enjoy then so much more and would never have known about them without you.
"Our imagination greatly informs our actions. Making us capable of change, and indeed making us humans."
Probably one of the reason why some people are highly optimistic while some pessimist!
Those lines gave me chills. ❤
came here because of SEVENTEEN's b-side track on their album face the sun 😭💗
Too bad for you
Seventeen also made a song inspired inspired by this story
I read this book the first time when I was a kid. I felt so bad for the protagonist every time he got laughed or mocked by other people. And it really taught me that, sometimes it is just so hard to be a dreamer
I love all the “Why You Should Read...” videos! Gotten so many great book recommendations from Ted Ed. More of them pretty please!! 🙏
A masterpiece. Here is modern humor, the beginning of meta-literature and the structure of the novel. Moving, memorable, funny and profound. A jewel!
reminds me of that seventeen song
I started reading many book because of ted😁
sameeee!
Meeee to
Bundy?
Wow, got this recommended as a carat, youtube knows I've been listening to that song a lot ig. Maybe I'll get to reading the actual story one day
are there... any carats here....
As a native Spanish speaker, I really enjoyed having someone recite this episode with an accent of Spanish speaking background. Really added to it all. Nice add Ted-Ed!
"Soñar el sueño imposible, luchar contra el enemigo imposible, correr donde valientes no se atrevieron, alcanzar la estrella inalcanzable... Ese es mi destino."
THE ALGORITHM WORKS FINE ASF
like I'm addicted to don quixote by svt and now this😭might read the book
here because of seventeen’s don quixote
I'm actually here because of Seventeen's new song and so I really got interested about Don Quixote and now I really wanna read it.
i was just listening to don quixote by seventeen, the algorithm's so creepy yet amazing lmao
I’m here from the seventeen song “Don Quixote”
My hands up, I keep 'em high
두려운 건 내 속에 나
내 모든 걸 걸겠어 난
So Imma light it up, light it up
Seventeen song Don Quixote bring me here
I just finished with this today. Dostoevsky on the back cover recommended it and while I was on the fence at that moment due to the books length that endorsement from a favorite author was all I needed to dig into this BIG book. I'm no scholar and much was surely lost on me but this is certainly wonderfully written with much insight wisdom and maybe best of all humor. It's long but go for it!
Got recommended this after looping seventeen's Don quxiote 👀
feeling like don quixote~
Huh?why is this suggested to me🤣I just enjoy listening to seventeen's don quixote
Currently working on my degree in Spanish Literature. And many times I have read the windmill except. But it wasn't until I had a semester entirely devoted to this work that I really got more of a shape behind this seemingly simple character. Excellent video!
I absolutely adore the Quixote. I'm studying it in college right now! I'm so glad you touched upon the meta-narrative aspect and how much of that influences how we read the novel even today--there's a lot of philosophy underlying it for sure. One thing that I always enjoy pointing out is that The Knight of the Sad/Melancholic/Sorrowful Countenance is but one of many translations you can offer; earlier editions actually went for Knight of the Unfortunate Countenance, which meant, you know, that he wasn't great-looking. Even little things like that can really colour how you view the character and the book (comical or tragical? a farcical satire or a poignant tale?) and that's all part of what makes this novel so great. :)
@Arriaga Two I read it in Spanish too!! A lot of it does get lost in translation when you compare the English and Spanish editions, as the original is so rich in nuances that it's pretty damn near impossible to capture it all in a different language. It's definitely a testament to its dialectical greatness, like you said.
Under which course are you reading it ? I'm an English Hons undergrad but till now, I never had Spanish literature.
Wow, it's interesting to know the different ways in which "el Caballero de la Triste Figura" has been translated.
here 'cause of seventeen's don quixote ♡ this story is so inspiring
I'm here after listening seventeen's don quixote
Ain’t that the seventeen song
LIMBUS COMPANYYYY 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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@@jackedbeastliftswomp womp
MANAGER ESQUIRE!!!!
“GALLOP ON ROCINANTE, JUSTICE SHALL PREVAIL.”
UA-cam reccommend me this after listening to Seventeen's Don Quixote
Stream SVT's Face the Sun!!!
Don Quixote also a song by a kpop group named SEVENTEEN.
Im from Argentina and my father spanish, he read this story to me when I was really young. I don't think I've ever met another person in Argentina that knows the story. I'm so greatful to him, Don Quijote made me love fictional epic stories
Coming here after finished watching RE4 Remake walkthrough and remember how the game and Luis often referencing this story.