Don Quijote, mito nacional en el primer franquismo

[Machine translation] Don Quixote and Don Quixote were the subject of a projective reading in the first ten years of Franco's regime, with different tones and emphases depending on the historical moment. This work critically reviews the most representative ideas of this misappropriation, to try to understand its evolution, from the initial use of the character as an emblem of the desired imperial values —wanting to be and selfless action for the good of humanity—, to the subsequent identification with the melancholy of the misunderstood hero, through the ideological excavation of Don Quixote in search of the utopian falangist impetus.