Z Don Quijote de la Mancha (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Cervantes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8426105130 ISBN 13: 9788426105134

Publisher: Editorial Juventud, 1989

Synopsis

Don Quijote de la Mancha esta considerado como un libro que simboliza dos personajes que se repiten a menudo en el pueblo espanol, y refleja, con ironia y gran altura moral, sus virtudes y sus defectos. Se respetan en esta edicion los vocablos de la epoca, se moderniza la ortografia y se regulariza la puntuacion y el uso de las mayusculas. Se sigue el texto de la primera edicion de Madrid (1605) y el de la de 1615 (para la segunda parte). ESTA OBRA TIENE DOS PRESENTACIONES DISTINTAS CON EL MISMO PRECIO: PUEDE ADQUIRIRSE EN DOS TOMOS O EN UN TOMO, LA MISMA CANTIDAD DE PAGINAS Y SIN ALTERACIONES EN LA OBRA TOTAL

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"        Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera. "And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?"
----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 sixteenth-century Spain. This Modern Library edition presents the acclaimed Samuel Putnam translation of the epic tale, complete with notes, variant readings, and an Introduction by the translator.
----The debt owed to Cervantes by literature is immense. From Milan Kundera: "Cervan-
tes is the founder of the Modern Era. . . . The novelist need answer to no one but
Cervantes." Lionel Trilling observed: "It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote." Vladmir Nabo-kov wrote: "Don Quixote is greater today than he was in Cervantes's womb. [He] looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through [his] sheer vitality. . . . He stands for everything that is gentle, forlorn, pure, unselfish, and gallant. The parody has become a paragon." And V. S. Pritchett observed: "Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe. . . . The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story-telling."


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About this edition

• Publisher: Editorial Juventud
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 8426105130
• ISBN 13: 9788426105134
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1100