The Performance and Hermeneutics of Death in the Last Chapter of Don Quijote
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eñores, dijo don Quijote, vámonos poco a poco, pues ya en los nidos de antaño no hay pájaros hogaño: yo fui loco, y ya soy cuerdo; fui don Quijote de la Mancha, y soy agora, como he dicho, Alonso Quijano el Bueno. Pueda con vuestras mercedes mi arrepentimiento y mi verdad volverme a la estimación que de mí se tenía” (II, 74; 1220). With these apparently straightforward words, Alonso Quijano admonishes Sancho Panza and Sansón Carrasco to refrain from their talk of undertaking the pastoral life as they gather around the reformed knight-errant’s deathbed. These words have reverberated throughout the centuries to many saddened readers as the dying man’s renunciation of his deeds and persona as Don Quijote. Whereas many have disagreed as to the relative craziness and/or nobility of the deluded knight-errant’s life, few have disagreed as to the sanity and/or sincerity of his dying words, the most notable exception being Leland Chambers. Chambers sums up the protagonist’s state of mind upon death, “the most ironic result of Alonso Quijano’s new clarity of mind is a rash gesture of a piece with all his actions as a knight” (20). In this study I will return to the problem of irony in the last chapter of this outrageously ironic novel in order to
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