Fortune and misfortune of the pastoral myth in the reception of 'Don Quixote' [Fortuna e infortunio de lo pastoril en la recepción del Quijote]

Alonso Quijano had two identification models: the knight and the shepherd. He pretends to be a knight throughout the novel and pastor at the end of it. Cervantes admired the pastoral novel and promised until the end of his life a second part of La Galatea. On the other hand, Don Quixote is full of small stories of love´s adventures and misadventures and entanglements of pastoral type. The myth of the pastoral therefore configures Cervantes’ work. The pastoral in Don Quixote and Cervantes has been the subject of a very diverse reception in Spanish thought of the twentieth century. While Menéndez Pelayo’s assessment is disdainful, that of Américo Castro is very positive, being Unamuno or Ortega more neutral