super high canonical literature in "Star Wars" comics

María Eugenia Della Salda

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Well... yes of course! The most classic and important literature is often referred to as "canonical literature" and can be recognized for their lasting impact and influence on next generation writers.
There is a character with a brief appearance in “Star Wars” comic[i], named Hess Korrin. He is a librarian and the guardian of the jedi past by keeping and cataloguing antiques in Obroa-skai. He is also a huge jedi's fan, reading all the old stories about them and really feeling them, like all good reader does. Hess is highly sensitive, highly harmonized with the flow of The Force.
With the rise of the New Order, his department is 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 times, "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 book the main character is an avid reader of very old knight adventures novels, and loved them to 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 burned his books and kick him out.
But that is really not important because he lives his live as a knight, saving slaves, 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 a very sensitive to The Force person as he is...
May be his appearance is small and unnoticed for 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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