Cervantes al pie de la letraDon Quijote a lomos del "Libro del mundo"

Resumen

Cervantes made of Don Quijote the ¿book of books¿ in its truest sense: the nobleman transformed into letter that is read and that one reads in its own graphic existence is one of the original inventions of the Cervantine escrivivir, subverting the thresholds that separate and unite literature and life. The labyrinth of metawriting that confronts characters (fictions of fictions) and people (fictions) in the narrative universe takes us back to the infinite chain of scribes of the world transformed into book, always a previous author¿s writing (Borges). Cervantes made a bookish defense of the oldest of symbols: that which identifies, in a consummate life-letter, the world with an incessant, absolute, and permanent Book. The nobleman¿s old dream charges sign in the graph that says him and writes him, in the circular metaphor of a writing of its writing. It is paradoxical that E. R. Curtius in his celebrated study (1984) mentions neither Cervantes nor Don Quixote in his itinerary of variants of the old topos metawriting.