Roberto González Echevarría continues his Yale course on Cervantes' Don Quixote, arguing that the novel's most innovative feature is Don Quixote's self invention, a hero defined outside family and social determinism. He traces perspectivism through the book's linguistic variety, regional differences, and settings like the inn, which he reads as an archaeology of Spanish society. Working through the first sally and the early adventures with Sancho, including the windmills episode and the encounter with the Basque traveler, he examines Don Quixote's particular madness as a refusal of social convention rather than simple delusion. He also discusses the burning of Don Quixote's library as a mock inquisition and shows how dialogue and the presence of Sancho blur fiction and reality. The lecture closes with remarks on assigned background readings for the course.