Amit Kothari

"With Don Quixote, Cervantes has accomplished an enduring act of literary alchemy: just as Quixote is combined with Sancho, so is fantasy combined with reality, the eternal with the everyday, and like the combination of matter and anti-matter, the explosion of aesthetic power is, in magnitude, infinite, propelling readers from the earth—at first facing inward at what was left behind on the page, then, forgetting the earth, outward into meaning—farther and farther toward the dream-like stars."

From a review of Don Quixote.