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

And I just got in the mail my copy of the new translation of Don Quixote by Edith Grossman, just published under the Ecco imprint of HarperCollins. The respondent, not very seduced by my reasoning, is Edith Grossman, the translator into English of Gabriel García Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa and the latest and much-praised version of Don Quixote (2003). What does one say about Don Quixote that hasn't already been said? Taken from Edith Grossman's excellent new translation; second part, chapter VII. Sancho said to his master: “Señor, I've already conveyanced my wife to let me go with your grace wherever to mix me up so you could hear me make another two hundred mistakes.” “That may be,” replied Don Quixote. The answer is in More about it soon… * Edith Grossman's translation, Ecco paperback, 2005. I've got the latest issues of American Short Fiction and One Story next to me on my couch, alongside James Hannaham's God Says No and the new Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch (the latter two by Little, Brown). €�What is true, though, is that English has an enormous In spite of everything, in the English-language world new translations of classical works sometimes get the same attention given to new novels. Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman's new version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose. You may wonder why I'm reading Don Quixote right now? Is there really a need to summarize the so-called plot? When Don Quixote and Sancho were shut away together, they had a conversation that is recounted in the history with a good deal of accuracy and attention to detail. Just a few pages in, but methinks it's very ready-for-filming – intentionally or not, I don't know. Title: Don Quixote; Author: Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman; Publisher: Harper Collins, 2005 (orginally written 1605-1615); Pages: 940 (right now, read up to page 226); ISBN: 9780060934347. Also: one of those “I could The escapist literature on my bedside: Don Quixote, by Miguel De Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman.