The Baroque as an Alternative to Modernity. Between the Windmills and the Barataria Island

Abstract

The article tends to fathom the relations between the “baroque” as the certain identification of the Spanish World of the 16^th and 17^th centuries and the breathes of modernity that mere apparent in Europe, being under pressure of the iniciation of the scientific revolution, “religion reforms” and the historical background. We try to analyse this dispute by referring to some extracts from Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha and it’s influence on the formation of the proper of the ESP – American culture.