>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:32:57 -0400 (EDT) >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Coloquio Cervantes (nota de Kurt Reichenberger) >To: [log in to unmask] >X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 950 >Original-recipient: rfc822;[log in to unmask] > >Undoubtedly the power of Cervantes' text is evident, among other things, >in the efforts to see it through the prism of allegory or symbol. We >treat it as the Bible has been often treated and even justify this >procedure by using examples from allegorical exegeses of the Bible. This >may or may not be justified. After all, the Q is not the Bible. It is >not a sacred text. But that this can be attempted, and in some cases >quite strikingly or suggestively, again, shows the power of Cervantes' >creation. This great virtual colloquiuum continues to confirm it. Thank >you again, Kurt and Robert. Dario Fernandez-Morera, Northwestern University.