Cervantes – Michael A. Kahn

From Sancho Panza to Saul Goodman: More Thoughts on the Cage-Free Character

Posted on January 12, 2020January 30, 2020 by Michael Kahn

As many of my readers know, I am a big fan of what I have named the Cage-Free Character. Those fictional free-range characters occupy a special place in my library, my own novels, and my heart. What exactly is a Cage-Free Character? He or she typically starts off as a minor character in a novel…

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3 Footnotes in a Tub: Score Another for Ecclesiastes

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Michael Kahn

A while back, I wrote a post on the topic of meta-fiction. Specifically, I discussed my naivete as to what I had assumed was the relatively recent vintage of that experimental genre and my subsequent astonishment at discovering that nearly five centuries before our current batch of meta-fiction hipsters Miguel de Cervantes had crafted the…

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Sex, Torture, and Montaigne

Posted on July 16, 2013February 10, 2014 by Michael Kahn

As I skim through my various posts this year, I’ve noticed a pattern: a fascination with literary evidence that confirms the prophecy of Ecclesiastes: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Or, stated differently, all those literary devices you think are so cool and au couranthave…

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