Love Don Quixote! The first part is my favorite, but the entire book is wonderful! I hope to read it in Spanish before the end of the year. Thank you for talking about one of my favorites!
Reading the book in Spanish is challenging even for native speakers because it's written in "Spanish Golden Age" Spanish. Hence reading the entire unabridged book in its native tongue has so many rewards.
In Spain we say that you can only really enjoy the book if you understand spanish. Spanish is a very rich language with many second meanings, traditional sayings and words with no exact translation. I can't imagine reading Don Quijote in another language.
Interestingly, the great fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges, who spoke both Spanish and English, mentions in his autobiographical essay that he first read Don Quixote in an English translation, and when he read the original Spanish version of Don Quixote he thought it was a bad translation and dismissed it.😂
My husband has (or as I prefer to think I have) a really nice edition of Don Quijote that the Real Academia Española made for its 400th anniversary. I want to try to read it this year.
We did excerpts for this back in high school. I’ve always wanted to return to the journey. I think I have the free kindle version. I’ll have to check who was the translator is on that and get to work sometime soon.
Hey! Just began the second part! I find it to be an incredibly pleasant read so far. Reading the modern Library 1950 version. It's excells at being a simultaneously funny and tragic and sad tale.
El manco de Lepanto.. Mayor guerra naval de la historia hasta Normandía..!! Para que el mundo no tuviera que rezar 5 veces al día mirando hacia la Meca y nuestras mujeres no tenga que llevar burka..!! Spanish army 2 cojones..!!
Please please do a Christopher Marlowe video. He fascinates me and I’d love the adjacent books. I’ve never been able to read Don Quixote. There is something about it that I find daunting. It’s not 5he size, chunkster though it is. I have the Norton Anthology of Poetry and that’s something to get lost in for a few hours from time to time. I’m loving this series. Thank you so much for all that you give to this little part of Booktube. You have certainly made a difference to me and have introduced me to so many new authors and new ideas. 😊💖
I JUST finished book one and your video was the first review! I didn't even think about different translations. What makes this translation second place?
Favorite Marlowe novel? Is it Dead Man in Deptford by Burgess? Cervantes is a trip. I like to drift in and out of Don Quixote so that the adventures don’t feel repetitive.
Hah! No, I know it's the likely candidate, but for me the best Marlowe novel is "Entered from the Sun" by the great (and sadly forgotten) George Garrett
I have the Edith Grossman translation as a Nook Book. I thing I paid $1.99 for it a while back. I will have to move it up on the T.B.R list. Thanks for the translation recommendation. Stay safe.
En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.
The problem with the quixote is that was writhe in the old spanish languaje, in a way that is truly dificult to translate, is even hard for spanish people now days to understand it as it happend to me.
@@morillosky Por favor tocayo, no mientas, sabes perfectamente que el español de la época de Cervantes no es igual al de hoy y mucho menos el español del propio Cervantes, su dominio y conocimiento de la lengua española era sobresaliente.
You say we should read Don Quixote, but why? I know it’s a classic and it’s been on my radar for a while, but I’ve never picked it up. What makes you recommend it? I just read Moby Dick partly because of your recommendation and loved it, so the trust is there, I’m just looking for some insight about what makes Don Quixote special! Thanks Steve!🤗
Well, as you could probably tell from my agonized, reserved tone in this video, I'm MOSTLY recommending reading this because it's a world-recognized classic that's had lots of influence. But I can't actually recommend it in anything like the way I'd recommend something like Moby-Dick - for me, Don Quixote has never had that kind of instant readability
I’ve never really been one for reading a classic just because it’s a classic, so not a very inspiring response, lol 😂 Guess it won’t be moved up the ol’ reading list anytime soon!
@@andiecurlybooks Well, keep in mind you'd probably get a very different answer from some other 28-year-old! But yes, from my own standpoint, the majority of the reason to read this thing is because it's a classic - personally, I think your time is much better spent reading Anthony Trollope!
Well, what can I say? I realize this is a world-recognized classic, but: I'm right there with you! I've absolutely never found it a pleasure to read, the way SO many classics actually are.
@@saintdonoghue I'm also reading Ovid's metamorphoses and it is so fun! I enjoy it very much. And that book is much older! I thought the more modern the classic is the easier it is to connect to it...
Reading classics without scholarly context is like starring at a famous painting without knowledge of the painter or the art movement. Yes, you can still enjoy it, but you can't possibly extrapolate the full enjoyment out of it without it.
I’ve tried and tried and tried with this one, including the Grossman translation, and I just can’t do it. It’s not the length, it’s not the age of the work. Honestly, it must be the book itself. It doesn’t work for me at all. I could be sad, I could keep trying, but I’ve dozens of classics still to read, and many to reread. So I’m passing this one by. But I enjoyed the video anyway.
God I love this series! This is like a panorama of classical literature
The Magnificent work of Western Civilization. I've read it twice. Chapter 43 of part 2 is one of the most profound passages I've read.
Love Don Quixote! The first part is my favorite, but the entire book is wonderful! I hope to read it in Spanish before the end of the year. Thank you for talking about one of my favorites!
Reading the book in Spanish is challenging even for native speakers because it's written in "Spanish Golden Age" Spanish. Hence reading the entire unabridged book in its native tongue has so many rewards.
In Spain we say that you can only really enjoy the book if you understand spanish. Spanish is a very rich language with many second meanings, traditional sayings and words with no exact translation. I can't imagine reading Don Quijote in another language.
Of course. The same way goes for original English and Russian and Japanese texts. You can't read them adequately with a Spanish translation.
Yup, when I was reading it in English I knew I was missing out on a lot of Cervantes' wit.
Interestingly, the great fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges, who spoke both Spanish and English, mentions in his autobiographical essay that he first read Don Quixote in an English translation, and when he read the original Spanish version of Don Quixote he thought it was a bad translation and dismissed it.😂
My husband has (or as I prefer to think I have) a really nice edition of Don Quijote that the Real Academia Española made for its 400th anniversary. I want to try to read it this year.
You capture the audience attention very well. A good review
We did excerpts for this back in high school. I’ve always wanted to return to the journey. I think I have the free kindle version. I’ll have to check who was the translator is on that and get to work sometime soon.
If you clicked on this, he doesn’t exactly discuss the book, but rather, the bookshelf it was on.
Hey! Just began the second part! I find it to be an incredibly pleasant read so far. Reading the modern Library 1950 version. It's excells at being a simultaneously funny and tragic and sad tale.
The eternal book of oll times!
El manco de Lepanto..
Mayor guerra naval de la historia hasta Normandía..!!
Para que el mundo no tuviera que rezar 5 veces al día mirando hacia la Meca y nuestras mujeres no tenga que llevar burka..!!
Spanish army 2 cojones..!!
Rutherford translated the humour. Grossman translated the Spanish.
Please please do a Christopher Marlowe video. He fascinates me and I’d love the adjacent books. I’ve never been able to read Don Quixote. There is something about it that I find daunting. It’s not 5he size, chunkster though it is.
I have the Norton Anthology of Poetry and that’s something to get lost in for a few hours from time to time. I’m loving this series. Thank you so much for all that you give to this little part of Booktube. You have certainly made a difference to me and have introduced me to so many new authors and new ideas. 😊💖
Do you sell those penguin books just wondering great job!!
Did you show all of those fancy ones on the very top?
I JUST finished book one and your video was the first review! I didn't even think about different translations. What makes this translation second place?
Favorite Marlowe novel? Is it Dead Man in Deptford by Burgess?
Cervantes is a trip. I like to drift in and out of Don Quixote so that the adventures don’t feel repetitive.
Hah! No, I know it's the likely candidate, but for me the best Marlowe novel is "Entered from the Sun" by the great (and sadly forgotten) George Garrett
Steve Donoghue Thanks for the recommendation; I had not heard of it. Looking to reread the Jew of Malta soon, what a strange play.
any day I will prefer Edith Grossman's translation to all the other translations
Speaking about editions, do you have any thoughts about other collections such as the Oxford world's classics? Or the Everyman's Library Collection?
I read the Oxford World's Classics and liked very much the job they did with it
I have the Edith Grossman translation as a Nook Book. I thing I paid $1.99 for it a while back. I will have to move it up on the T.B.R list. Thanks for the translation recommendation. Stay safe.
I can't FIND my copy! I got a nice hardcover for $1 a couple of years ago, and I KNOW I have it hear somewhere - unless I sent it out, *sigh*
does this book have a hard language?? i want read but i'm afraid i might end up not understanding a word lol
En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.
Which translation is it, please ?
Thanks.
The problem with the quixote is that was writhe in the old spanish languaje, in a way that is truly dificult to translate, is even hard for spanish people now days to understand it as it happend to me.
The Spanish language has not changed. Spaniards have changed. En los nidos de hogaño no hay los pájaros de antaño. DQ dixit.
@@morillosky Por favor tocayo, no mientas, sabes perfectamente que el español de la época de Cervantes no es igual al de hoy y mucho menos el español del propio Cervantes, su dominio y conocimiento de la lengua española era sobresaliente.
@@damdefensor you can read to Cervantes or Baltasar Gracián without dictionary. Sorry if you have not vocabulary.
You say we should read Don Quixote, but why? I know it’s a classic and it’s been on my radar for a while, but I’ve never picked it up. What makes you recommend it? I just read Moby Dick partly because of your recommendation and loved it, so the trust is there, I’m just looking for some insight about what makes Don Quixote special! Thanks Steve!🤗
Well, as you could probably tell from my agonized, reserved tone in this video, I'm MOSTLY recommending reading this because it's a world-recognized classic that's had lots of influence. But I can't actually recommend it in anything like the way I'd recommend something like Moby-Dick - for me, Don Quixote has never had that kind of instant readability
I’ve never really been one for reading a classic just because it’s a classic, so not a very inspiring response, lol 😂 Guess it won’t be moved up the ol’ reading list anytime soon!
@@andiecurlybooks Well, keep in mind you'd probably get a very different answer from some other 28-year-old! But yes, from my own standpoint, the majority of the reason to read this thing is because it's a classic - personally, I think your time is much better spent reading Anthony Trollope!
Look up Benjamin McEvoy's RUclips channel. He has a deeper appreciation for the novel and its many translation.
Right now I'm reading edith grossman's translation. And I am so bored. Pushing myself through it. But I don't understand the love for it yet.
Well, what can I say? I realize this is a world-recognized classic, but: I'm right there with you! I've absolutely never found it a pleasure to read, the way SO many classics actually are.
@@saintdonoghue I'm also reading Ovid's metamorphoses and it is so fun! I enjoy it very much. And that book is much older! I thought the more modern the classic is the easier it is to connect to it...
Nastya A few more great Roman or Greek classics will get rid of that idea for you!
Reading classics without scholarly context is like starring at a famous painting without knowledge of the painter or the art movement. Yes, you can still enjoy it, but you can't possibly extrapolate the full enjoyment out of it without it.
I’ve tried and tried and tried with this one, including the Grossman translation, and I just can’t do it. It’s not the length, it’s not the age of the work. Honestly, it must be the book itself. It doesn’t work for me at all. I could be sad, I could keep trying, but I’ve dozens of classics still to read, and many to reread. So I’m passing this one by.
But I enjoyed the video anyway.