Jose Angel Ascunce Arrieta. El Quijote como tragedia y la tragedia de don Quijote. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2005.295 pp. ISBN 3-935004-98-2. Caveat lector. Do not base your selection of this work solely on the title, for if you anticipate a book-length study on tragedy in Don Quixote, you will be disappointed. A quick glance at the table of contents reveals the misleading nature of the title. Yes, Ascunce Arrieta's study does examine tragedy in the first, and only the first, of four chapters, but what dominates is a 120-page examination of narrative voices in Don Quixote. The introduction further confirms the text's eclectic nature--a hodgepodge of previous essays, "trabajos nacidos en contextos diferentes y con finalidades distintas" (x).
