Don Quixote in Carlos Fuentes` Terra nostra = Don Quixote in Carlos Fuentes` Terra nostra

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In this article we will analyze the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes` Terra nostra seeking the influence of Miguel de Cervantes and his character Don Quixote on this work. This novel describes the contrast of the Spain of the 16th and 17th centuries represented by the king Philip clinging to build a strong country of absolutism, with the fluctuating world symbolized by the "discovery" of the New World and the new way of thinking in Cervantes` context. In Terra nostra, Fuentes uses the literary characters of the Spanish Golden Age as a symbol of the resulting culture from the three religions` coexistence, which the Spain in the transition to the Modern Age sacrificed to establish the "only and absolute" nation, the philosophy of which is represented by the monastery El Escorial. To Fuentes, these characters are the art that "rescues the truth of the hand of falsehood", and they give readers a new vision to study History. Fuentes considers that the novels have to highlight the hidden side of reality so in Terra nostra he describes the hidden history of Spain and Mexico with a great cultural diversity apparently murdered by the "only" way to read the world or the reality.