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Don Quixote (Hardcover)
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (Author), Edith Grossmann (Translator)

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Hardcover: 980 pages
Publisher: Secker & Warburg (1 Jan 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0436205157
ISBN-13: 978-0436205156
Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 15 x 6.4 cm

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Carlos Fuentes, The New York Times, 2/11/03
This is truly masterly: the contemporaneous and the original co-exist.

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Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you’ve never read Don Quixote.

From the Introduction by Harold Bloom: ‘Grossman might be called the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note. Reading her amazing mode of finding equivalents in English for Cervantes's darkening vision is an entrance into further understanding of why this great book contains within itself all the novels that have followed in its sublime wake.’

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Surprisingly brilliant, 25 April 2004

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I had put off reading Don Quixote for many years imagining that it wouldbe difficult to read. The weight of the book, physically andmetaphorically just seemed too oppressing!
I couldn't have been morewrong. I had read so many rave reviews of Edith Grossman's translationthat I thought I would give it a go. I'm so pleased I did. This book is"laugh out loud" funny - I was not expecting to read bits aloud andgiggle! I think I expected to have to work hard to get through it but it'sa complete page turner! It also has a cinematic feel which to a nonliterature student like myself seems way ahead of its time and thecharacters, major and minor shine from every page. I now know why peoplesay this was the first modern novel - it contains all the elements of agreat read that we now take for granted. I have not read any othertranslations but Grossman's prose truly brought the book alive for me. I'mamazed how a book written in the late 16th and early 17th century can nowbe read in such an easy and accessible manner. Don Quixote can be read onmany levels (the joy of all great books) but if, like me, you were put offby it's stature, don't be, just dive in and enjoy.

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