Part 1, Chapter 9
The narrator discovers the Arabic manuscript in Toledo, introducing the fictional historian.
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From Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Cervantes frames the novel as a translation from the Arabic historian Cide Hamete Benengeli, and in Part 2 the characters know they are characters from Part 1, pioneering modern metafiction.
Part 2, Chapter 3
Sancho and Quixote discuss the published Part 1 and the spurious Avellaneda sequel; characters confront their own textuality.
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