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Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes; Edith Grossman |
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DON QUIXOTE (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_FICTION SPAIN_FICTION CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Miguel 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 he lost the use of 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 writers, including Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Alvaro Mutis. The author of The Antipoetry of Nicanor Parra, she earned a Ph.D. from New York University. This new translation of Don Quixote is her excursion into the classic literature of an earlier time, a natural kind of progression in reverse to which she brings her many years of experience in rendering into English the works of Cervantes' heirs in the Spanish-speaking world. 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. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. 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. |
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