more on Sancho

Dostoevsky says Quixote comes to yearn for realism. Are not the Knight and his squire more worldly than this suggests? For example the adventure of the braying where Q abandons S in face of overwhelming odds; 'I have retreated not fled' says Q; S is unimpressed: Dostoevsky's reading is that faced with the collapse of one fantasy then Quixote (and everyone) invents a further to save the first. The two travellers have a discussion about the adventure and have no problems with realism and fantasy; pragmatism occurs. Maybe this is a turning point for S. Dostoevsky makes too literalist a reading. See blog 6 and how to answer 'what song the sirens sang'.