"The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha" Written by One Avellaneda, from Tordesillas
In 1614 a sequel to Cervantes' Don Quixote was published under the pseudonym Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda. The identity of Fernández de Avellaneda has been the subject of many theories, but there is no consensus on who he was. One theory holds that Avellaneda's work was a collaboration by friends of Lope de Vega.[1]
Critical opinion has generally held Avellaneda's work in low regard,[1] and Cervantes himself is highly critical of it in his own Part 2. However, it is possible that Cervantes would never have completed his own continuation were it not for the stimulus Avellaneda provided. Throughout Part 2 of Cervantes' book Don Quixote meets characters who know of him from their reading of his Part 1, but in Chapter 59 Don Quixote first learns of Avellaneda's Part 2, and is outraged since it portrays him as being no longer in love with Dulcinea del Toboso. As a result of this Don Quixote decides not to go to Saragossa to take part in the jousts, as he had planned, because such an incident features in that book. From then on Avellaneda's work is ridiculed at frequent intervals; Don Quixote even meets one of its characters, Don Alvaro Tarfe, and gets him to swear an affidavit that he has never met the true Don Quixote before (Pt 2 Ch 72).
[From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Avellaneda]
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When Quixote entreats Don Alvaro to officially declare that he's not met the real Quixote until now, Alvaro gives the following reply:
Critical opinion has generally held Avellaneda's work in low regard,[1] and Cervantes himself is highly critical of it in his own Part 2. However, it is possible that Cervantes would never have completed his own continuation were it not for the stimulus Avellaneda provided. Throughout Part 2 of Cervantes' book Don Quixote meets characters who know of him from their reading of his Part 1, but in Chapter 59 Don Quixote first learns of Avellaneda's Part 2, and is outraged since it portrays him as being no longer in love with Dulcinea del Toboso. As a result of this Don Quixote decides not to go to Saragossa to take part in the jousts, as he had planned, because such an incident features in that book. From then on Avellaneda's work is ridiculed at frequent intervals; Don Quixote even meets one of its characters, Don Alvaro Tarfe, and gets him to swear an affidavit that he has never met the true Don Quixote before (Pt 2 Ch 72).
[From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Avellaneda]
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When Quixote entreats Don Alvaro to officially declare that he's not met the real Quixote until now, Alvaro gives the following reply:
'I shall be delighted to do so,' Don Alvaro replied, 'even though it amazes me to see two Don Quixotes and two Sancho Panzas at the same time, as identical in name as they are antithetical in action; and I repeat and confirm that I have not seen what I have seen and that what has happened to me has not happened.'
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