Don Quixote, titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.
《堂吉诃德》是文艺复兴时期的现实主义杰作,作者塞万提斯。主要描写和讽刺了当时西班牙社会上十分流行的骑士小说,并揭示出教会的专横,社会的黑暗和人民的困苦。《堂吉诃德》问世以来,经受住了时间的考验,堂吉诃德的名字在不同历史年代,不同国家都流传着。别林斯基曾说,堂吉诃德是一个“永远前进的形象”。堂吉诃德的名字已经变成一个具有特定意义的名词,成了脱离实际、热忱幻想,主观主义,迂腐顽固,落后于历史进程的同义语。革命导师马克思、恩格斯、列宁在著作里不止一次地提到堂吉诃德。堂吉诃德的形象在今天仍保持它的意义。