Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote 9781400871537

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BOLLINGEN

SERIES

LXXXV

Selected W o r k s of M i g u e l de Unaniuno Editors ANTHONY KERRIGAN MARTIN NOZICK tFEDERICO DE ONIS HERBERT READ

Volume 3

Miguel de Unamuno

OurLord Don Quixote The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho with Related Essays

Translated by Anthony Kerrigan

With an Introduction by Walter Starkie

Bollingen Series L X X X V · 3 Princeton University Press

Copyright © 1967 by Bollingen Foundation Published for Bollingen Foundation, JVew York, JV.T. by Princeton University Press, Princeton, JV.J.

THIS IS VOLUME THREE OF THE SELECTED WORKS OF MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO CONSTITUTING NUMBER LXXXV IN BOLLINGEN SERIES SPONSORED BY AND PUBLISHED FOR BOLLINGEN FOUNDATION. IT IS THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE SELECTED WORKS TO APPEAR

Library of Congress catalogue card no. 67-22341 Printed in the United States of America by Clarke £=? Way, Inc., JVew Tork, JV.T. Designed by Bert Clarke

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION,

by Walter Starkie

ix

I

T h e Life of D o n Quixote and Sanchc FOREWORDS

3

The Sepulcher of Don Quixote

9

The First 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12-13. 15. 16". 17.

Part

The Famous Knight Don Quixote The First Sally The Knighting of Don Quixote On Leaving the Inn A Misadventure The Scrutiny of the Library The Second Sortie The Adventure of the Windmills The Battle with the Brave Basque A Pleasant Conversation The Hospitality of the Goatherds Tales Told by the Goatherds Some Heartless Yanguesans The Inn He Took to Be a Castle Further Hardships at the Inn The chapter titles are shortened for this list.

23 31 38 41 48 52 53 57 63 65 61 13

85 88 89

Table of Contents 18. 21. 22. 23. 24-25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33-34. 35. 36. 38. 39-42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51-52.

Conversations with Sancho Mambrino's Helmet Don Quixote Frees the Prisoners Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena The Penance of Don Quixote Don Quixote in Love The Curate and the Barber More of the Curate and the Barber The Princess Micomicona A Conversation with Sancho Don Quixote and His Company at the Inn The Tale of Foolish Curiosity The Battle of the Wineskins Other Rare Events A Discourse on Arms and Letters The Captive's Story The Story of the Muleteer Don Quixote Mocked Doubts about Mambrino's Helmet The Ferocity of Our Knight A Strange Enchantment On Books of Chivalry A Shrewd Conversation Some Learned Arguments End of the Second Sally

The Second 1. 2. 3-4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

92 .97 99 107 110

114 119 120 124 127 131

133 134 136 137

137 138 140 142 149 150 152 153 155 157

Part

Don Quixote's Malady Sancho Defends His Master Sancho and the University Graduate Sancho and His Wife Don Quixote and His Niece The Knight and Squire Discuss Terms A Visit to Dulcinea

159 160 161 162

163 167 170

Table of Contents 9. 10. 11. 12. 13-14. 15. 16-17. 18-23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 40—43. 44. 46. 47—55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61-63. 64. 67. 68. 69. 71. 72-73. 74.

Sancho's Search The Enchantment of Dulcinea The Adventure of the Wagon of Death o The Brave Knight of the Mirrors The Knight of die Wood W h o the Knight of the Mirrors Was The Affair of the Lions The Cave of Montesinos A Thousand Necessary Trifles The Braying Adventure The Adventure of the Puppeteer Master Peter and His Ape The Enchanted Boat A Fair Huntress Many Great Matters Don Quixote's Reply to His Censor Sancho and the Duchess The Disenchantment of Dulcinea The Coming of Clavileno Sancho's Government The Enamored Altisidora The End of Sancho's Governorship Doha Rodriguez Don Quixote Takes His Leave Adventures Thick and Fast What Might Be an Accident On the Road to Barcelona Entering Barcelona A Painful Adventure Don Quixote Will Turn Shepherd A Bristly Adventure Don Quixote's Strangest Adventure On the W a y Home Back Home The Death of Don Quixote

172 173 180 182

183 184 186

191 194 196 198 205 206 208

209 210

214 216

219 223 230 235 242 246 246 259 261

271 275 282

297 298 301 304 306

Table of Contents II Essays Quixotism The Knight of the Sad Countenance Glosses on Don Quixote i. The Essence of Quixotism π. The Cause of Quixotism Ganivet, Philosopher Regarding Don Juan Don Quixote-Bolivar Mudarra, Son of Prison On the Forms of Spanish Sorrow: Acedia The £migr£s and the Begrudgers On a Passage by Fielding, the Cervantine Don Quixote's Shipwreck Don Quixote's Beatitude SaintQuixoteofLaMancha The Childhood of Don Quixote "In a Village in La Mancha . . ."

329 334 356 361 368 374 383 401 405 412 416 421 426 429 434 438

APPENDIX : On the Reading and Interpretation

of Don Quixote

445

NOTES

467

INDEX

539

Introduction i. The Forerunners M I G U E L D E U N A M U N O Υ J U G O was vowed to fate by his allegorical first surname, which in the ancient Basque lan­ guage meant "hill of asphodels"—the pallid flowers that the specters flitting through the shadowy Elysian Fields used to nibble when they wished to become visible. But, as Ramon Gomez de la Serna used to point out, his second name Jugo ("juice" or "sap") gives a note of earthly antith­ esis to modern Spain's apostle of Quixotism. In order to understand the full significance of Unamuno's spirit and his impact upon Spain and his contemporaries of the Generation of 1898, it is necessary to study the forces molding Spain in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century, when Menendez y Pelayo, Ramon y Cajal, and Perez Gald