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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 29, 1968
Scholar examines 'Don Quixote
A Spanish scholar gave a literary criticism of the novel, "Don Quixote" Saturday morning to highlight the 44th annual Cervantes Day in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Cervantes Day is attended annually by students and teachers of Spanish and Portuguese from colleges, junior colleges, high schools, and grade schools throughout the state and is hosted by the KU department of Spanish and Portuguese in honor of the 16th-century novelist, Miguel Cervantes.
Enrique Moreno Baez, who holds a professorial chair of literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, commented on the structure of the novel by Cervantes before 200 Spanish teachers and students.
He stressed the lack of planning in the first part of the novel, and said it was originally intended to be a short work as Cervantes' others had been. Cervantes later
decided to add chapters and lengthen the novel, Baez said.
The second part of the book contrasted with the first because of the deliberate planning and firmness of characterization, Baez said.
The second part paralleled a painting, Baez said. He compared the crisscrossing of planes of the novel to the paintings of Velasquez which involve complicated planes, mirrors, and depict Velasquez himself in the work. As Velasquez included himself in Las Meninas, Cervantes had cast himself in Don Quixote, Baez said.
When Cervantes portrayed Don Quixote's paranoid personality so graphically, he was either describing himself or someone he knew very well, Baez said.
Baez traced the personality of Quixote as he influenced his companion, Sancho Panza, and the reverse relation of Sancho's influence on Quixote. As Quixote helped Sancho change from reality to fantasy, Sancho helped bring Quixute back to reality.
Baez saw this interaction as a merging of the two characters.
The afternoon of Cervantes Day allowed Spanish teachers a rest, as high school and grade school students entertained with Spanish dances, a historical drama and poetry.
ENRIQUE MORENO BAEZ
Deformed mice to be kept at KU
The support of a variety of inbred and mutant mouse stocks was the purpose of a recent $11. -628 grant to KU by the Animal Resources Branch of the U.S. Public Health Service.
About 50 different types of mice—including hairless, anemic and genetically deformed—will be kept for KU research and for researchers across the nation interested in particularized studies.
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