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Crazy Old Don Quixote: Pity, The Fool Crazy Old Don Quixote: Pity, the Fool Don Quixote de la Mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, is a novel of “illusion and reality” (Campbell 221). The first book, part one, was published in sixteen hundred and five, and part two was published in sixteen hundred and fifteen. The story takes place in various villages of Spain in the early sixteen hundreds and spans about twenty years. Don Quixote de la Mancha, the main character is an avid reader of chivalric novels. He flees from his home and makes an attempt at a chivalric lifestyle. Upon his return home, his family believed he was insane, so they walled-in the door to the library and burned most of his books. On his second flight of chivalric behavior, he takes along a servant by promising him leadership of his own island. Quixote falls deeper and deeper into this fantastic world he has constructed in his own mind. For twenty years he travels the land of Spain in an effort to re-establish the chivalric way of life that the Spanish have left behind. “Chivalric novels were the most popular form of quixote, chivalric, quixote’s, cervantes, spain, russell, campbell, books, novels, don, said, madness, people, de, chivalry, true, sixteen, part, own, novel, main, madman, lifestyle, even, characters, cervantes’s, book, believed, actions, 223, 222, years, world, way, upon