Don Quixote is infamous. Murakami (the other one) highlighted it in his long essay on Japan and pop culture, 'Earth in My Window', as emblematic of post-WWII Ja

Don Quixote is infamous. Murakami (the other one) highlighted it in his long essay on Japan and pop culture, 'Earth in My Window', as emblematic of post-WWII Japanese consumerism: https://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2005-murakami https://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2005-murakami