Abstract: (My Name is Jamaica by José Manuel Fajardo and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. An Intertextual Reading) José Manuel Fajardo is a Spanish writer and journalist, born in 1957. Despite his legal background, he is passionate about history. His books evoke important events in the history of Spain and Latin-America. My name Is Jamaica (2010) is one of his most famous novels. Nathalie Piégay-Gros noticed that a text can’t be written ‘independently of what has already been written and, that it bears, in a manner more or less visible, the trace and memory of an inheritance and tradition’. To Julia Kristeva, ‘any text is the absorption and transformation of another’. Any literary text is a ‘palimpsest’, to use Gérard Genette’s term. ‘The absorption’ of the novel Don Quixote into My Name Is Jamaica is undoubted. In addition to this, José Manuel Fajardo mentions Cervantes’s masterpiece several times throughout his novel. As Riffaterre states, it is a ‘compulsory intertextuality’ that any writer perceives. Santiago Boroní, the protagonist of the novel My Name Is Jamaica, teaches history at a university in Paris. In the XXIst century, he lives a story similar to Don Quixote’s: he owns an immense library, partly inherited; he reads a lot, loses his mind and wants to resemble the hero of his readings, a warrior called Jamaica, from the 16th century. Like Don Quixote, he changes his name, tries to make the world a better place, defends the weak and the oppressed. He delivers grandiloquent speeches and drags those around him into his absurd and dangerous adventures. In the end, he comes to his senses and asks those he had involved into his pipe dreams for forgiveness.