Размышления о "Дон Кихоте"

The essays "Reflections on Don Quixote" (1914) and "Reflections on Escorial" (1915) were written by the world famous philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955). Thinking about the relationship between the outside world and human essence, good and evil, love as the basis of life, he tries to recreate the artistic and philosophical image of his homeland. What is it - Spain, "this plateau of the European spirit"? The crazy hidalgo Don Quixote, the book about him by the long-suffering Miguel Cervantes and the majestic bulk of the monastery of El Escorial become symbols of its amazing originality. From these accomplishments of the Spanish spirit, the author's thought is repelled, folding into a rigid contour of a philosophical theory - a theory that will become the property of the 20th century. About all this and more in the book Reflections on "Don Quixote" (Jose Ortega y Gasset)