Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

Nobuaki Ushijima, "Don Quixote's Journey" - Read this and you will find Don Quixote interesting! The best introductory book that I highly recommend!

This book is really great. It makes "Don Quixote," which tends to be a struggle after just one reading, into something completely different. It is such a great transformation that it is no longer funny and interesting.

Don Quixote" is a parody. It is not interesting unless you can see behind the scenes of what appears on the surface.

This book explains the fun of "Don Quixote" in such a vague way that even if you read it vaguely, you will not first notice it.

This book is a good place to start. I recommend it with confidence. It is such an interesting introduction to the subject.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

Horrifying similarities with the Soviet Union and totalitarianism - including Karamazov connection "Inquisition: The Reign of Terror that Undermined the Great Spanish Nation" article list

I learned from this book that the medieval Spanish Inquisition was not a relic of the past, but an essential human issue that is relevant today.

I felt a very strong connection to Lenin and Stalin's Soviet Union and the Soviet-German war that I had studied so far.

The interesting thing about this book is that the author's thoughts are expressed here and there, and it does not end with a mere list of data. It is an excellent read. It was a really interesting book to read. I highly recommend this book. I highly recommend this book and I hope you will read it too.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

(11) To study the Inquisition is to consider "What is man?

The more we learn, the more we realize that things are not so simple.

They could accuse the Inquisition of being weak on bribes and power, accuse torturers of being sadists, and accuse those in favor of war for the sake of colonial expansion of having made war." The author also states. It is easy to condemn a man who commits atrocities as an "evil man" and hold him responsible for his evil. But what if the evil is not unique to him, but is borne by human beings themselves? By blaming him, we are also blaming the human being itself, including ourselves.

The system of the Inquisition is not limited to medieval Spain. It continues in our world today. It is necessary to think about such human beings themselves.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

(10) Connection between the recommended episode of "Don Quixote" "The Story of the Bookburning Inquisition" and the Inquisition.

The story of the burning of the books in "Don Quixote" is one of my favorite episodes. It makes me chuckle no matter how many times I read it. The scene is full of Selvandes' humor.

Reading "The Inquisition: The Terror that Consumed the Great Spanish Nation" has given me a new perspective, connecting such a favorite scene of mine with the Inquisition. I can only marvel at the amazing skills of Cervández.

It was a very interesting reading experience.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

(9) Montaigne and the Inquisition Connection: Spain in Decline and the Rejection of European Enlightenment Thought

Although Montaigne was a Frenchman famous for his Enlightenment ideas, it is said that his lineage had its roots in Converso, Spain. Surprisingly, the history of Spain, where the Inquisition was rampant, had a great influence on Montaigne's thought.

The Inquisition, which sought to eliminate those with hostile ideas, ended up creating these more powerful entities. The trend of distrust, skepticism, and atheism gradually eroded the authority of the Church.

It was very interesting to see how the Inquisition had a major impact on how modern European philosophers were born.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

(8) The precursor to the self-destruction of power in medieval Spain: the evils of a powerful bureaucracy and vast administrative affairs "Learning from the Medieval Inquisition" ⑻.

The repression and exile by the Inquisition was not merely a political issue; it was also tremendously damaging to the economy. This quote is one of the most memorable in the book.

We are reminded here that eliminating others will ultimately strangle us. We may think that we have defeated the bad guys by letting our emotions get the better of us, but in reality, we have not solved any of the problems.

This is the same today. They make someone look bad, attack and eliminate them as they are responsible. Time goes by without discussing what really needs to be looked at and without taking any action...

The result is a terrible loss and a country in decline... The Spanish Inquisition is no stranger to this. This is exactly the problem we are facing now.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

(7) Medieval Spain and the Soviet Union. The corruption of those who gained power - Exploring the arrogance of bureaucrats and spies.

This is where we finally get to the heart of the book.

As you may have noticed, this is exactly how it will be linked to the Soviet era.

This is a society where spies do not know where to find each other. The use of secret police to maintain power and protect the system was already in large scale in medieval Spain.

I think this article gives a sense of the horror of people with power abusing it.

Power is justice, and with power comes impunity for all kinds of injustice.

This was precisely the theme that Lenin and Stalin had also adopted during the Soviet era.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

(6) The hidden meaning behind Spanish cuisine and specialty tapas: What is the connection between food culture and faith?

Tapas, a representative of Spanish food culture, actually had an underlying meaning.

In Spain, Christians, converts, Jews, and Muslims coexisted and assimilated into one another, so it was difficult to tell who believed what simply by their appearance. Therefore, people tried to confirm their beliefs through these foods.

For example, when a dinner party is held at a house, each guest brings a dish to share. Then they would intentionally bring pork sausage. If the owner of the house or other guests did not want to eat it, they would be revealed as hidden Jews or Muslims.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

(5) Cervantes' amazing satirical skills! What is the connection between the rowing sentence in the galleys and "Don Quixote"?

When I read the passages preached within this article, I felt a chilling sensation throughout my body.

This is because rowing in the galleys is also mentioned in Cervantes' "Don Quixote," and the episode of the rowing prisoners and Don Quixote had a very large impact on me.

I was struck once again by the sheer brilliance of the film "Don Quixote. It is littered with terrible satire and irony. And it is a marvel that you can read it as a funny novel even if you don't know about it. It has become my favorite novel even more and more.

Knowing the history of the Inquisition changes the way we see literature. This was very interesting.
Don Quixote, the beloved itinerant knight.

(4) Social distrust due to rampant secrecy and snitching during the Spanish Inquisition: Into a hellish world of doubt and suspicion

What we will see in this article is the process by which what was thought to be simply a system for judging heresy has become a disease of society as a whole.

At first, we only punished those we suspected.

However, this escalates and turns into a world of doubt and suspicion, where one can no longer be sure who is being tipped off by whom. In such a world, how can there be warm human interaction? Will there ever be the joyful connections we used to take for granted?

Once surveillance and snitching have become so entrenched, trust between people is broken.

Once this happened, there was little each individual citizen could do. Spain gradually lost its vitality...