Resumen de Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Adding to Wilson's insights, I find in both our second author and the voice of the prologue to part one a fictional analogue that alludes to the actual Cervantes-a hypothetical narrator rather than an empirical writer; the feigned composer of a "true history" rather than the creator of a story titled Don Quixote within our world of historical experience. More plausibly, our historian, like his friend, the archives of La Mancha, the "true history," and the Prologue belong to the same imaginary world as Don Quixote. To be sure, part of the serio-comic fun of Cervantes's tale arises from the chance discovery of an Arab manuscript that adds credibility to the narrator or second author's "true history." According to this empirical standard, Cide Hamete and his manuscript signify outlandish fantasies.
