Editing Don Quixote (section)

===Influence on modern Spanish===
In 2002 the [[Norwegian Nobel Institute]] conducted a study among writers from 55 countries, the [[majority]] voted ''Don Quixote'' "the greatest work of fiction ever written".<ref>{{cite book | editor1= Aaron M. Kahn |title=Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment |publisher= Oxford University Press |year=2021 |page=87 |isbn=9780198742913 }}</ref>

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase {{lang|es|de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme}} ("whose name I do not wish to recall"):<ref>{{Cite web |last=FARRANT |first=LILY |date=2022-04-22 |title=22 April 1616: Death of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes |url=https://www.surinenglish.com/lifestyle/death-spanish-writer-20220422093800-ntvo.html |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=Sur in English |language=en}}</ref> {{lang|es|En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=En un lugar de la Mancha |url=https://www.gavilan.edu/academic/spanish/gaspar/html/11_03.html |access-date=September 30, 2024 |website=gavilan.edu}}</ref> ("In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.")<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, by Miguel de Cervantes |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5921/5921-h/5921-h.htm#ch1 |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref>