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Chapter | Valencias de la Edad de Oro

Valencias de la Edad de Oro

Mito ‘quijotesco’ en el Uruguay actual 

Abstract

The current president of Uruguay, José Mujica, is a former guerrilla who in the 60s was linked to direct-action groups that aspired to the revolution and to promote social justice. On different occasions the personality of Mujica has been related to the figure of Don Quixote and his most mythologized features. In a public lecture, the President appropriated the ‘Discurso de la Edad de Oro’ (Quijote I, chap. XI), which appeals to a utopian world, separated from capitalism, and free from work, crime and private property. By tracing the social value of that speech and the history of its reception, this paper will contribute to understand the current political use of that passage of El Quijote.  


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: July 12, 2015 | Accepted: Nov. 17, 2016 | Language: it

Keywords Uruguay • Golden Age • Quixote

Copyright © 2017 María de los Ángeles González Briz. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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