>tfw just finished Quixote
>again
>tfw nothing else seems worth reading
>tfw about to start rereading Quixote
>again
Tfw just finished Quixote
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It was quite good wasn't it.
My favorite part was when all the characters came together at the inn.
I'm not very far in yet but good damn this book is COMFY.
comfiest novel ever written, which is not surprising, considering it remains the best novel ever written
Which translation should i get
Any of the following is fine:
Edith Grossman (If this is your first time reading it then I'd recommend starting with Grossman)
John Rutherford
Charles Jarvis
Ormsby and Grossman
Ormsby if you only get one
it's public domain
yea, Rutherford is alright too, but it might just be my extreme bias for loving penguin classics that i'm saying that
I got this edition, Spanish as is my native language.
Have you guys thought of learning the language to get the closest experience with the work?
OP here, and yes i have
I began learning Spanish in high school age 14 and I've been casually educating myself in it ever since
I'm very familiar with the mechanics of the language but I'm intimidated with being bogged down by looking up a whole lot of specific words, nouns especially
In short, not quite sure i'm ready for a read-study yet, but I'm gonna do it before dying for sure
No book has made me laugh and cry near as much as this book. Finishing it broke my heart. I've read the Motteux and Grossman translations, wanting to try more.
Has anyone read the Raffel translation? I've heard a lot of good things.
Honestly, yeah. Between Cervantes, Bolaño, Cortázar, and others, I really ought to just try and learn the language already. Had a difficult time trying back in high school desu
Defo
I've been surrounded by spanish my whole life
I'm sure i could get it with time
Spanish poetry and prose is so sexy
Harold Bloom always gushed over Don Quixote
>Harold Bloom on Don Quixote, the first modern novel
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Motteux
WHY THE FUCK HASN'T ANYONE WRITTEN SOMETHING BETTER THAN DON QUIXOTE YET GOD DAMN IT I'M SO ANGRY
Putnam
I know this feeling. I read it a year ago and fell in love, laughed and cried (that motherfucking ending). I will likely re-read it again in the next two years it's that good. For such a long novel the pages just flew by. Genuinely one of my favourite things I've ever read, shortly followed by Les Miserables (another book to make a huge emotional impact on me).
>he read the Grossman translation
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Its bloom approved
that book was hella boring, repetitive shit.
Jarvis, duh
I bet you hate Moby Dick as well!
>Have you guys thought of learning the language to get the closest experience with the work?
Why, I've read what Quevedo said of Don Quixote and it seems I'm not missing Joycean planes of stylistic mastery by reading it in translation.
Spaniard here asking any other spanish speaker: is the old Aguilar edition right?