Don Quixote

Kathy Acker

Brought up on Stuff You Should Know, most recently on 2026-08-19.

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Where it came up

• Stuff You Should Know · Isn't It Ironic, Dontcha Think? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW · at 35:55 · 2026-08-19

  “Don Quixote is um maybe the first modern novel. There's a lot of irony in that. The biggest one is just that Quixote himself is a very elevated sort of ideas about his adventures”Discussed

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