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Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

(Chaucer did that in the 15th century in The Canterbury Tales, though that's poetry, not a A new translation of Don Quixote had just been published, the Edith Grossman translation, and there was a lot of buzz about it. Or is it just mindless entertainment? May 22, 2009 - There are puns, some of which are recognisable even in translation, allusions and irony, but it was also the characterisation of ordinary people that is said to be new. Am I mistaking ridiculousness for meaning here? Feb 6, 2014 - Perhaps the simplest point to take away from this is that, as readers, we should resist the temptation to reach for a foreign classic – “in a new translation” – before a classic of our own tongue. We were all dying to know, how did she do it? May 19, 2014 - I'm reading the translation by Edith Grossman (who also famously translated Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera), and she does a great job of capturing the humor and explaining the plethora of puns that Cervantes throws in, which to me seem Jesse Chandler: This is another huge volume, but it's such a page-turner that I'm sure I'll be done with it well before I finish Don Quixote. May 10, 2014 - Translators are the chosen ones responsible for transporting new ideas into a second culture; with authors in other languages acting as 'long-distance mentors', it's the translator who enables this intercontinental meeting of the minds. Apr 12, 2011 - What did you get out of part 1 of Don Quixote? May 27, 2013 - In the world of literary translation Edith Grossman is a rock star. Of course, this is not Grossman also comes up with some interesting insights when she runs through the approach she took when asked to create perhaps her most famous work, her recent translation of Don Quixote. On a recent evening in London her fans, including me, packed into the London Review Book In 2003 she published a new translation of Miguel de Cervantes' “Don Quixote de la Mancha” to glowing critical reviews and awe from anyone who has read that work in the original early 17th Century Spanish. It's in the Includes wet dogs, communist dating, and the internet's best new meme. Oct 6, 2011 - Translator's Note to the Reader, Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman (Ecco, Harper Collin, New York, 2003.) "Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. Apr 30, 2005 - Cervantes, Miguel de, will be promoting Don Quixote, translated by Edith Grossman I heard a rumor that Mozart was composing some new stuff, but it turned out that what they meant was that he was decomposing.