Roberto González Echevarría continues his Yale lecture course on Cervantes' Don Quixote, examining the novel's final chapters. He traces how Cervantes compresses and combines romance genres, morisco, Greek, and pastoral, in what looks like an attempt to invent the modern novel. Topics include the Barcelona episodes, where the prank with the talking head literalizes prosopopeia and Don Quixote's visit to a printing shop probes the origins of the book itself, and the sign the boys hang on his back that reduces him to language. González Echevarría connects Avellaneda's spurious sequel to the dueñas who punish Sancho and to Altisidora's dream vision, arguing that Cervantes denies any position outside fiction, escapable only through the willed act Don Quixote makes after his defeat by the Knight of the White Moon. The lecture closes the course's reading of the novel's final stretch.