“His major work, Don Quijote...has many times been regarded as the best work of fiction ever written.”
And some of us have found it a deadly bore. Pointless, repetitive tripe. In every medium and more than one language. Abridged, unabridged, and comic book versions.
Worse than Proust. Worse than Pynchon. Down there with Joyce.
Fooey.
With that being said, would you recommend it?
I tried at least five times to read it, but just couldn't.
Have you ever read Pynchon or Proust? I think you need to reread Don Quixote.
Maybe his work is being attacked for P.S. reasons? Accusations of Islamaphobia? Cervantes was wounded in the Battle of LePanto, and lost the use of his left hand. He was imprisoned for five year in Algeria by Muslim terrorists.