![]() The famous poet Goethe wrote that Don Juan was "a work of boundless genius" and critics have tended to agree ever since. ![]() It's hard to overstate just how huge Don Juan is in the canon of world literature. The rest of the book tells us about all the wacky and sexy adventures he has afterward. But Julia's husband finds out about the affair and Don Juan has to leave Spain. These urges take him into the arms of a married woman named Julia. This plan backfires when Don hits puberty and starts feeling urges he never felt before. Our hero, Don Juan, grows up with two spoiling and flawed parents, who shield him from all knowledge of sex. Byron, on the other hand, just makes fun of adultery and portrays it in a humorous way. The difference is that they would have brutally punished the hero or heroine for committing such sins. Now, it's true that other writers in Byron's time would have portrayed adultery in their works. ![]() That's because Don Juan is chockfull of adultery from its very first stanzas. But the fact that he published these cantos anonymously shows that ol' Byron knew people weren't going to react all that well. When Lord Byron published the first two cantos of Don Juan in 1819, he told his publisher that he didn't want to get either of them into any trouble. ![]()
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