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In this article we study the reasons for the substantial presence of Garcilaso in the Second Part of Don Quixote ¿a presence which, strangely enough, cannot be found in the First part. The defeat of Don Quixote on the beach of Barcelona by the Knight of the White Moon implies for Don Quixote the impossibility of continuing to live in the idealized world of the chivalresque novel. The realm of the knights errant disappears gradually from the text, while the pastoral motifs, through the mediating voice of Garcilaso, gain substantial form and presence, to the point where Don Quixote even considers becoming a shepherd. The fusion of these two worlds ¿the chivalresque and the pastoral¿ has been admirably achieved, one reason being the function of Garcilaso as a fundamental subtext to the Second Part.
