Abstract

The practice of being a knight demands Don Quijote to try to carry on recklessness to its very last consequences, even if prevented by any of the intertextual figurative entities. The adventure of the dead body introduces the seed of a desiderative action that, taken to its extreme, becomes in other time a deliberate textual exposition of corpses, materializing the semantic potential of the fictional chapter. The article analyzes the literary implications of such extreme and, after a previous comment and contrast of the adventure to its literary background based on some critical contributions, a manner of how the completion of such purpose, textually absent, is introduced from a gnosis-like knowledge perspective, would then constitute an enlargement of possibilities to enter the mortuary reality.