Yeah, he falls into a deep kind of malaise I've always interpreted as intense embarrassment, then it gets so bad he dies of it. My renaissance lit professor in college told us Cervantes killed Quixote at the end so other authors would have a hard time writing and selling their own unofficial sequels (a thing that was common at the time with popular novels)
Yeah, he falls into a deep kind of malaise I've always interpreted as intense embarrassment, then it gets so bad he dies of it. My renaissance lit professor in college told us Cervantes killed Quixote at the end so other authors would have a hard time writing and selling their own unofficial sequels (a thing that was common at the time with popular novels)
IIRC The author published (under a pseudonym) a work where Don Quixote goes around beating up bad fanfiction authors.
Imagine getting paid to write about your OCs beating up other people’s shitty knock-off OCs lmfao