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Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman
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Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote has quickly become a favorite, lauded by academics and common readers alike. Don't fail to check this out, the world's first modern novel. Review-A-Day"Edith Grossman actually makes it easy for you, O frazzled reader, because she has produced the most agreeable Don Quixote ever....Don Quixote, famously, is the first major work of Western literature to take ordinary human life for its subject — specifically, a life that is replete with accidents, fiascoes, and indignities — and make it over into something luminous with meaning. It does so without pomp or sententiousness — it's the friendliest and least formal of all the Great Books — yet will overwhelm you, in the end, with its moral and imaginative splendor." Terry Castle, The Atlantic Monthly (read the entire Atlantic Monthly review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in English until you've read this masterful translation.
Review:"Against the odds, Grossman has given us an honest, robust and freshly revelatory Quixote for our times." Publishers Weekly
Review:"[T]he most transparent and least impeded among more than a dozen English translations going back to the 17th century....Ms. Grossman...has provided a Quixote that is agile, playful, formal and wry." Richard Eder, The New York Times
Review:"With Don Quixote, Grossman tackles a challenging project. The result is a beautiful, readable rendition, transforming golden-age Spanish into modern English. It's definitely an adventure worth taking." Cleveland Plain Dealer
Review:"Grossman has a jazzy approach that might scandalize some....Her rendition confirms that Cervantes' imperfect masterpiece is as much at home in Shakespeare's tongue as it is in Spanish." Los Angeles Times
Review:"[A] major event indeed....[A] Don Quixote that is contemporary without being irreverent....
Review:"Reading Don Quixote today...is likely to be more of an intellectual adventure than a deeply emotional experience....[Grossman is] terrific in emulating Don Quixote's high-flown diction when he's at full chivalric throttle." The Washington Post
Review:"[Grossman's] rendering of Cervantes' prose conveys all of its complex subtleties in a fresh and attractive style that is neither overly traditional nor colloquial." San Diego Union-Tribune
Review:"Edith Grossman delivers her Quixote in plain but plentiful contemporary English....Yet there is not a single moment in which, in forthright English, we are not reading a 17th-century novel. This is truly masterly: the contemporaneous and the original co-exist." Carlos Fuentes, The New York Times Book Review
Review:"Ms. Grossman jumps to the head of a class previously led by Samuel Putnam (Modern Library) and Burton Raffel (Norton)." Dallas Morning News
Synopsis:The 17th century Spanish masterpiece, one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written and widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, 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 16th century Spain.
Synopsis:The 17th-century Spanish masterpiece is one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written and is widely regarded as the world's first modern novel.
About the AuthorMiguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor's prison that he began to write Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote. He died on April 23, 1616.
Edith Grossman is the distinguished prize-winning translator of major works by leading contemporary Hispanic writers, including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Mayra Montero. Her new translation of Don Quixote is Edith Grossman's excursion into the classic literature of an earlier time, a natural kind of progression in reverse. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 2 comments:
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