Higuera provides a pathbreaking analysis of the complexities of Don Quixote that will send Cervantes scholars scrambling back to the text. At the same time he has written one of the best introductions to the book for general readers.

Paul Cantor, University of Virginia

This is far and away the best analysis that I have ever read of the political teaching of Don Quixote, one of the literary masterpieces of our tradition and hence a work of abiding interest . . . to all of us.

Ernest Fortin, Boston College

Higuera serves us well by his practical criticism and close reading of the novel itself rather than a fashionably theoretical abstractedness...

Thomas Werge, University of Notre Dame