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The ingenous hidalgo: Don quixote: de la mancha

By: Contributor(s): Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: 2003 Penguin Books New DelhiDescription: xxix, 1022 pISBN:
  • 9780140449099
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 863.3  S2I6
Summary: Didn०t I tell you they were only windmills? And only someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!०Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote०s fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with.John Rutherford०s landmark translation does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes०s prose. His introduction discusses the traditional works parodied in Don Quixote, as well as issues surrounding literary translation.Voted greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute(http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140449099,00.html?
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 43-B / Slot 2469 (3rd Floor, East Wing) Fiction General Stacks 863.3 S2I6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 177716

Didn०t I tell you they were only windmills? And only someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!०Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote०s fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with.John Rutherford०s landmark translation does full justice to the energy and wit of Cervantes०s prose. His introduction discusses the traditional works parodied in Don Quixote, as well as issues surrounding literary translation.Voted greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute(http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140449099,00.html?

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