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Don Quixote is perhaps the longest novel you have ever read (or will ever read). However, time and hard work pay off. The novel is touching, funny, sad, wise all at the same time. As you work your way through the novel, I hope you will find this page to be a useful aid.
I have prepared a list of questions for you to examine as you read. You may wish to print it out and keep it by your side as you read Don Quixote.
One of the most complicated aspects of Don Quixote is its narrative structure. Don Quixote, as you will see, is a novel that makes us question the relationship between fact and fiction, truth and imagination. The form in which Cervantes presents Don Quixote is quite complicated. For a visual representation of the narrative structure, be sure to examine the narrative structure and metafiction page.
The characters embody the issues of imagination, artifice, truth, fact and fiction. Examine the relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and also the page on Dulcinea.
Finally, I have prepared a lengthy section dedicated to transformations of Don Quixote from the Renaissance to the present day. A question to ask yourself as you peruse through the many incarnations of the Don Quixote story is how readings of Don Quixote has changed over time.