Vladimir nabokov taught a series of lectures on Don Quixote as part of a humanities survey course that he was teaching at Harvard in 1952. The lectures on Don Quixote were meant to serve as an introduction to the rest of the course. This article from the New York Times about Nabokov's obsession with the literary hero explains well his belief that Don Quixote is taken too lightly, that we shouldn't laught so much at his misfortune's (I am VERY guilty of this!) It is not meant to be a heartwarming novel, but rather a heart wrenching one. I will explain this in more depth after i finish the lectures, but this article makes a good introduction!
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