Don Quixote
Resumen del Libro
The novel Don Quixote is over four hundred years old (first appearing in 1605, fifteen years prior to the Mayflower reaching the shores of Massachusetts), yet it is still alive and fresh today. Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky called Don Quixote the ultimate and most sublime work of human thinking. Samuel Mark Twain Clemens admitted that his most-revered work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was based on — or at least heavily influenced by — this satirical picaresque novel by Cervantes. Ernest Hemingway opined that American literature began with Huck Finn , thus, we can trace a literary lineage flowing from Cervantes to Twain to Hemingway and onwards. Considering the above, it is fitting that a native English speaker wanting to learn Spanish (beyond the basic phrases revolving around bathrooms and beer, as well as conversational necessities such as How are you? , What is your name? etc.) would want to read Don Quixote in its original language, and, of course, a native Spanish speaker wanting to learn English could use this volume to the same end. This edition allows for that, with alternating paragraphs in the original Spanish and the translation into English. Here are some quotes about and from Don Quixote : I had rather you read fifty Jumping Frogs than one Don Quixote. Don Quixote is one of the most exquisite books that was ever written, and to lose it from the worlds literature would be as the wresting of a constellation from the symmetry and perfection of the firmament–but neither it nor Shakespeare are proper books for virgins to read until some hand has culled them of their grossness. – Mark Twain, in a letter to his fiancé, Olivia Langdon.Thirty thousand volumes of my history have been printed, and it is on the high-road to be printed thirty thousand thousands of times, if heaven does not put a stop to it … for though self-praise is degrading, I must perforce sound my own sometimes, that is to say, when there is no one at…
