Talk:List of works influenced by Don Quixote

Moving to a list
I moved this too a list, because I have the distinct feeling that the content has not been treated as a distinct subject within the scholarship. Am I being too bold?


 * No, I think the new title, "List of works influenced by Don Quixote", is an improvement. AtticusX (talk) 20:18, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Impoverished from prose to mere titles list
The content removed has been impoverished from a collection of detailed infos, to a mere list of titles of the works influenced. Usually articles aim to convert lists into prose, paragraphs and discussions, not the other way around. I will restore the lost information when I have time.--Sum (talk) 21:45, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

PS. For the context of the split, see also this discussion with a cogent comment by User:AtticusX --Sum (talk) 21:46, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * What? I said something cogent!? Well, that's neat. AtticusX (talk) 04:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. What's happened here? A whole lot of referenced material has been purged with no explanation. A new page should have allowed expansion, not reduction. Don Quixote is probably the most influential novel in Western literature. You can't confine that influence to books that have "Quixote" in the title. --Folantin (talk) 11:02, 13 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I have re-integrated the apparently valid content that got omitted when this article was split off from Don Quixote. I re-added the content entry-by-entry rather than copy-pasting from the older version so as avoid undoing some of the improvements that have been made since the split. AtticusX (talk) 23:15, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

The Pickwick Papers?
Surely we can include the Pickwick Papers by Dickens in this section. Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller are blatantly similar to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Mark Wormald highlights this link in the preface to the 2003 Penguin edition of the novel if you need a link (stolen from the third citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers#cite_note-2in

Two additional references:

"In The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-37), Dickens presents an amiable Quixote in Mr. Pickwick, with a very English Sancho named Sam Weller"

Howard Mancing (2006) Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Reference Guide. Westport CT, Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 161.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rbgVX1hI3n0C&pg=PA161&dq=influence+of+don+quixote+dickens&hl=en&ei=MsADTv3cI8Kq8QOU69mGDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=pickwick&f=false (links to google books)

and

Dostoevsky also made the comparison, albeit one that portrayed Dickens in a negative light:

"Dickens' Pickwick (an infinitely weaker idea than Don Quixote, but still an enormous one) is also ridiculous, and effective in fact because of that."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Allan Lowe, Ronald Meyer (1991) Complete Letters: 1868-1871. Constable & Co. Ltd. p. 17.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kP98AAAAIAAJ&q=%22an+infinitely+weaker+idea+than+don+quixote%22&dq=%22an+infinitely+weaker+idea+than+don+quixote%22&hl=en&ei=tsIDToS6Lc-p8AOwo8HsDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw

(also links to google books)

I'm unsure of the publisher location of the latter however it is on page 17 of that link to the book.

Other influenced works?
I don't know why this is limited to film adaptions. There are others like "The meaning of life", which are obviously directly influenced by don quichote. It seems to be more interesting to have a list of influenced works rather than adaptions of the original story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.22.161.103 (talk) 11:34, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

What about "Confederacy of Dunces"? I would have thought Ignatius Reilly a classic quixotic hero. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.174.84 (talk) 03:38, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Video clips dont fit in any category. e.g this video clip of the song "PANYA" from the group "ZOO Posse" Andre Magnol (talk) 13:06, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

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Consistency in lists
From what I can tell the lists are fairly consistent within themselves but between the different lists there are minor inconsistencies, for example the list of films has semicolons while the music does not I am not sure which is better but both is not good. Lokust10 (talk) 06:43, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

this is a sequel to Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote
The History of Sir George Warrington or The Political Quixote by Elizabeth and Jane Purbeck 92.41.3.253 (talk) 19:43, 25 November 2022 (UTC)