%0 Journal Article
%T Don Quixote and Jesus Christ: The suffering ¡°Idealists¡± of Modern Religion
%A Rebekah Marzhan
%J Oce¨¢nide
%D 2012
%I Sociedad Espa?ola de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular SELICUP
%X The figure of Don Quixote has always been seen as a character symbolizing the absurdity of idealistic pursuits. As such, countless generations have been able to temporally appropriate this medieval knight as representative of their own historical situation. Through a lineage of poetry, essays, novels, and scholarship, great thinkers have lifted the spirit of Quixote from Cervantes¡¯ pages and revived the heralded knight of folly as a symbol of the incongruous place of not only faith in ideals but faith of a religious or spiritual nature in the modern, rational world. While this progression of thought has been well developed and explored through literary movements, modern illustrations of Don Quixote have been largely neglected in scholarship. Thus, to see how Don Quixote¡¯s spirit has been revived visually in the twentieth century, scholars may turn to the work of Salvador Dal¨ª. Through a series of illustrations for a 1945 edition of Quixote, Dal¨ª utilizes the iconography of Jesus Christ to express Don Quixote as an irrational figure who suffers for his idealistic pursuits.
%K Don Quixote
%K Dal¨ª
%K visual analysis
%K suffering
%K Christianity.
%U http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art4-15.pdf