Don Quixote's Books Burned

`"banished from the world"

Don Quixote in the Library, by Adolf Schrödter, 1834

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha read a lot of books and this worried the people in his life.His infatuation with chivralic books lead him to decide to become a knight-errant. (Written by Miguel de Cervates, one of the most widely read classics of of Western literature published in two parts—part 1, 1605; part 2, 1615)

In chapters 6 and 7 his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber burn most of his chivalric and other books.

Scrutiny of the priest and the barber of Don Quixote's library. Woodcut from the 1741 edition

Destruction of Don Quixote's library (Chapters 6–7)

While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber burn most of his chivalric and other books. A large part of this section consists of the priest deciding which books deserve to be burned and which to be saved.

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