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Jun 12, 2026 9:34 PM
PreciousYoutlys
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somebackup
Terrible novel, do not recommend
clankthegray
I'm pretty sure The Tale of Genji was the the first widely popular novel. It came out well before Don Quixote was even written. If I'm remembering correctly?
film888master9
Just like Jay and Silent Bob, ahhh the classics!
quade
Corvidqueen
Honestly this sounds like the same thing Sherlock Holmes went through when it was published.
Neednoggle
If you've never read Don Quixote, I strongly recommend it. It's a good story, and genuinely laugh out loud funny; I had no idea it was a comedy when I first started it
FoamingToad
Agreed. I'd also put in a nod for Three Men on a Boat, which is still extremely funny today (and On the Bummel if you can find it, its sequel). Also, an awful lot of Zola's work isn't funny, but it's tight as fuck. La Bete Humaine or Germinal would by my starting positions. More recently, Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck is bloody hilarious.
FlyingTigerRose
"Don Quixote" remains one of the best books I have ever read. My dad recommended a specific version: the 1950 Penguin Edition. Something about how well the translation was done. All I know is that I thoroughly enjoyed it, cover to cover.
badkluster04
Correct.
AirTelephone
"Petty"? (title of the post) Did you read any of it? It's deeply human and funny, I enjoyed the sequel even more than the first part.
cyno01
WeaponizedJerk
"the first fan fiction" lol no, not even close. What do you think all those religious tales essentially are?
rydecker
The man who killed Don Quixote....with Adam Driver....really good (at least I enjoyed it...)
cyno01
You should watch 'Lost in La Mancha' (2002), its a making of documentary about 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' (2018) lol.
cyno01
Heres some numbers that have nothing to do with anything. 🧲 47d32f33cda5f958204a052481b8aab15c825448
FoamingToad
Doing God's work there mate. It needs to be well shared. I'll be seeding.
EstoyPoopis
I love random meaningless numbers.
jimmythehat1
Why is Quixotic pronounced Kwik-Saw-tik, when it should be pronounced kee-HOH-tik, as in kee-HOT-tay?
Blethigg
Because it would sound too similar to chaotic?
MoonyT
askin the real questions
JahSureYouBetcha
It was Anglicized by English-speaking readers in the 17th century.
Bizarkly
Way to prove the title of this post...
bobthefunny
First Fanfiction...? FIRST FANFICTION?
Excuse me good sir... by Dante's Inferno is literally self-insert fanfiction...
Virgil's Aeneid is a fan fiction of the Iliad and the Odyssey...
The Bible...
EatYourSoylentGreenAndShutUp
Isn't the Bible itself kind of fanfiction?
Rink257
The difference between Theology and Science Fiction is popular agreed upon truth... so... yes. It's stories written by fans and people who had trippy dreams.
Rink257
The Bible, hahaha, yes. I was talking to some LDS the other day and told them I didn't believe Adam and Eve were real because they didn't write or record anything. Everything we know about Adam and Eve were stories given to the writers of these stories, centuries later and were in the form of dreams. I could see the cogs turning.
chefsoda
It’s a great story. Cervantes said that Don Quixote was complete in one book, and that a sequel would only diminish the original. So many people wrote sequels, often pretending they were Cervantes, that it made him angry enough to write his own sequel.
It’s all great stuff
IakobZ
Cervantes wrote the second part of Don Quixote as a response to one of those sequels, the one by Alonso de Avellaneda. In that second part, he mentions Avellaneda's work several times, criticizing its story, its language, its style. He literally says that the book is so bad that "the demons of hell play ball with it" and "I myself could not have written it so badly even on purpose." He even insults Avellaneda, which seems to indicate that he knew his true identity (Avellaneda is a pseudonym).
DVSBSTrD
I mean it makes sense for Don Quixote to get angry over someone writing shit about him, given how much he loves books.
AsheLake
I imagine he wouldn't like the first book either.
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
And then, to protect his I.P., he released a new movie version every 19 years for the next century, each one slightly different from the previous.
FoamingToad
I read it in the 1990s when Wordsworth Classics came out. For the uninitiated, these were copyright-free texts of classic literature that was sold a £1 a pop; and this was absolutely the cheapest form of entertainment you could get on £37 a week dole. So unintentionally I ended up reading a shit-ton of classical literature until I ended up getting a job.
chefsoda
That’s pretty brilliant all around!
LegosBearsAndSex
🎵 🎶🎵 I Don Quixote, the Lord of LaMancha, my destiny calls and I goooooo 🎶🎵🎶
MantisTobagganMD
I play a loooot of EU4, and every time I play as an Iberian (or anybody that spend time in and around Iberia) and I see the La Mancha province... I sing this. Sometimes aloud, sometimes just in my lil head.
chefsoda
And the wild winds of fortune shall carry us onward, with us so ever they blow!
LegosBearsAndSex
There are dozens of us...
DOZENS.....#BROADWAY
chefsoda
The Peter O’Toole version of The Man of La Mancha was the first vinyl record I ever purchased!
LegosBearsAndSex
So great! I loved the Brian Stokes Mitchell version myself.