super high canonical literature in "Star Wars" comics
Well... yes of course! The most classic and important literature is often referred to as "canonical literature" and can be recognized for its lasting impact and influence on next-generation writers.
There is a
character with a brief appearance in the “Star Wars” comic[i], named Hess Korrin. He is
a librarian and the guardian of the Jedi past by keeping and cataloging antiques in Obroa-skai. He is also a huge Jedi fan, reading all the old stories
about them and really feeling them like all good reader does. Hess is highly
sensitive and highly harmonized with the flow of The Force.
With the
rise of the New Order, his department was closed by the Imperial Security Bureau.
He rescues a lightsaber from the antique collection in his department to
preserve the memory of the Jedi. A bit later on, he becomes a Jedi himself
proclaiming: "My name is Don-Wan Kihote... and I am a Jedi Knight!"
Does that
name ring any bell?
This
lovely character is based on one of the greatest novels of all time, "Don
Quijote de la Mancha" written in the year 1605 by the Spanish author Miguel
de Cervantes Saavedra. Keep an eye on the similarities: in Cervantes's book, the
main character is an avid reader of very old knight adventure novels and
loves them to the point that he becomes a knight himself. Or maybe he just thinks
he becomes one. His family, the priest, everyone thinks he is crazy and they
burn his books and kick him out.
But that
is really not important because he lives his life as a knight, saving slaves, and distressed ladies and trying to bring good to the World.
Back to Don-Wan
Kihote, when he is kicked out of his position and the library, he starts living
as a Jedi, and surely, he becomes one, being very sensitive to The Force
person as he is...
Maybe his
appearance is small and unnoticed by the main public, but the creators (thank
you for that) did a thing that is much needed: keeping and guarding the past so
this great novel gets an opportunity to see the light after 300 years.
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