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标题：Edward H. Friedman. Cervantes in the Middle: Realism and Reality in the Spanish Novel from Lazarillo de Tormes to Niebla.
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作者：Anne J. Cruz
期刊名称：Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
印刷版ISSN：0277-6995
出版年度：2009
卷号：XXIX
期号：01
出版社：Cervantes Society of America
摘要：As is often the case with major celebrations, the 400th anniversary of Don Quixote, Part I got the better of the celebrants. Many of the assorted enterprises held during 2005 merely served to commercialize the novel and its protagonist, from the fabrication of a “Ruta del Quijote” that takes the knight’s incautious fan to places never mentioned in the book, to the marketing of overpriced sandals etched with Don Quixote’s doleful countenance, which, I confess, I couldn’t resist buying. Yet the occasion was also marked by academic activities of a far more productive sort, among them, various excellent conferences attended by distinguished cervantistas and a number of publications that have brought renewed attention to the centrality of Cervantes’ novel within the Western European literary tradition. One such publication is the book under review, which rescues Don Quixote from a superficially iconic status by tracing its theoretical interconnections with the realist novel and its antecedents.