![]() ![]() The second and third parts focus on the two lead characters: Jim Holden as a reluctant Don Quixote and Josephus Miller as a detective turned knight. The first section of the essay points to genre and parodic elements in the two novels. At the same time, Corey moves away from a comical vision of Cervantes’ text in order to emphasize a romantic approach and asks what it is to be human, what our aspirations are – and how we deal with the non-human. Corey uses parody to deflate the high style of space operas, turning to the quotidian, much like Cervantes turns to rustic La Mancha. ![]() The novel thus announces its debt to Cervantes, and contains a heuristic imitation of Don Quixote. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes, a novel that served as source for the first season of the Sci-fi television series The Expanse, an errant space frigate, once stationed on board of the Martian battleship Donnager, is renamed Rocinante. ![]()
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