Part 1, Chapter 6
Famous comic episode of literary criticism; Amadis of Gaul is spared, Cervantes's own La Galatea is mentioned approvingly by the priest.
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From Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The priest and barber examine Quixote's library and burn most of the chivalric romances they blame for his madness, in a famous metafictional inventory of Cervantes's literary world.
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