Who is the author of Don Quixote?

Don Quixote (1602 ~ 16 15) is Cervantes' masterpiece. The full name of this novel is "The Palace of Gentlemen with Fantasy Ideas" * * 2 volumes, which mainly describes a thin and declining aristocrat, Ji Ke De. He is obsessed with ancient knight novels, dressed himself as an ancient knight in rags, regarded an ugly pig-herding woman as a goddess of worship, and then set out to travel around the country three times with a pudgy farmer, Sancho Panza. As a result, many jokes were made, humiliated everywhere, beaten or sent home as a madman. There are nearly 700 characters in the novel, and the scenes depicted are all over the country from the palace to the wilderness. It exposed the contradictions of the declining Spanish kingdom from the end of 16 to the beginning of 17, condemned the decadence of the aristocratic class, showed the people's pain and struggle, and touched on political, economic, moral, cultural and customs issues. The novel portrays two famous typical figures in world literature, namely, Sancho, a peasant who is laughing, respectable, sad and realistic, timid, intelligent and just. It combines realism and romanticism organically, which has both unpretentious real life and funny and exaggerated fictional plots, and has reached a new level in reflecting the depth and breadth of reality and shaping the typicality of characters.