He sets off on an imagined quest to win glory for his imagined paramour, and spends the novel trying to distinguish between his hallucinations and his reality in an only slightly exaggerated description of the way we all live our lives. He is at once a rational thinker and a raving madman, a deep romantic trying to create a better world and a sympathy-evoking innocent. This week: Cervantes’ lovable adventurer, Don Quixote.ĭon Quixote de la Mancha is a complex figure. Read on for a cozy reading soundtrack, character study, or yet another way to emulate your favorite literary hero. What would be on the personal playlists of Holden Caulfield or Elizabeth Bennett, Huck Finn or Harry Potter, Tintin or Humbert Humbert? Something revealing, we bet. But wonder no more! Here, we sneak a look at the hypothetical iPods of some of literature’s most interesting characters. If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your favorite novels, well, us too.
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