"[Cervantes'] work was not intended ... to become merely a criticism of out-of-date chivalry, but also to be an indictment of the world of the disenchanted, matter-of-fact reality, in which there was nothing left for an idealist but to dig himself in behind his idée fixe."
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Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art and Literature (1951), as translated by Stanley Godman, p. 399
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