题目：Don Quixote and the Montesinos Cave

演讲人：Antonio Cortijo Ocaña Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara; Editor of the on-line journal eHumanista

时间：2011年6月20日（星期一）下午1：00－3：00

地点：文南楼204室

主办：清华大学外国语言文学系、清华大学比较文学与文化研究中心

简介： This talk will focus on Don Quixote, Cervantes’ 17th –c. novel. In the second part of the book, the hero’s search takes him to the entrance to a cave which is famous in the region for being a magical space where the human and the divine interact. Don Quixote decides to visit this cave (The Cave of Montesinos) by himself. There he has a vision of his beloved lady which he reports back to Sancho when he comes back from the cave. Don Quixote’s descent to the Underworld signifies a momentous time in his quest for love and adventure. Cervantes’ construction of this episode is reminiscent of many heroes’ journeys to the Underworld, although (as usual with Don Quixote) with a mixture of seriousness and parody.