Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Overview

Don Quijote de la Manchaa es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Publicada su primera parte con el título de El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha a comienzos de 1605, es la obra más destacada de la literatura española y una de las principales de la literatura universal. En 1615 apareció su continuación con el título de Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha. El Quijote de 1605 se publicó dividido en cuatro partes; pero al aparecer el Quijote de 1615 en calidad de Segunda parte de la obra, quedó revocada de hecho la partición en cuatro secciones del volumen publicado diez años antes por Cervantes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545592090
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/24/2017
Pages:	634
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.28(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Miguel de Cervantes's work has been translated into many languages and has been read, analyzed, and studied by aficionados all over the world. Gustave Doré was a French illustrator and painter who produced engravings for editions of The Divine Comedy, Don Quijote de la Mancha, and works by Rabelais and Balzac.

Editorial Reviews

A translator of Horace, Balzac, Rabelais, and Salvador Espriu, as well as a theorist (The Art of Translating Prose, Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr., 1994), Raffel (Univ. of Southwest Louisiana) undertook the formidable task of translating Cervantes's masterpiece because he was uncomfortable recommending any of the existing translations. There are some real differences here. Raffel has junked the traditional transcription of Cide Hamete, the pseudoauthor, in favor of the less "colonialist" and more authentic Arabic, Sidi Hamid. Proper names that contain puns are explained within square brackets, and footnotes are kept to a minimum. A more vernacular style reigns: The blow on the neck and the stroke on the shoulder that dub Don Quijote a knight are, respectively, a "whack" and a "tap." The women at the inn, usually called "wenches," are "party-girls" or "whores." Sancho dreams that his "old lady" will someday be a queen and that his "kids" will be princes. In the proofs, "Castile" has been misspelled as "Castille," an oversight one would hope to see corrected in the final book. This is a lively alternative to the wide assortment of truly old-fashioned translations. Recommended.-Jack Shreve, Allegany Community Coll., Cumberland, Md.

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