Pia Petersen sous le signe de don Quichotte

Abstract

This interview has been motivated by the Cervantean intertextuality of Pia Petersen’s (a French-speaking Danish author) last novel, Le Chien de don Quichotte (2012). Departing from the values that the writer attributes to Cervantes’ work, I try to establish a connection with a specific critical trend in order to test, later on, to which extent this approach is used by the author to create a series of characters placed under the sign of don Quixote. Finally, I evaluate her novel’s relation with contemporary reality.