Apuntes sobre Don Quijote como narrador

Abstract

Upon close examination all the narrators can be divided into two op­ posing groups, and the novel is found to be structured on a polarity between these two sets of narrators. The first is the over-all narrator complex of Cide Hamete Benengeli and the unnamed editor, the se­ gundo yo, who compiles the text. This much is obvious. To this group must also be added the tales Don Quijote relates because bis stories belong to the chivalric vision exemplified by the control genre, the libro de caballerías. The projection of this vision is the underlying thrust of the novel as a whole (Dudley, 357-58) •