/lit/ - Literature

What is the best translation of Don Quixote, my main men?

>>6892847

>>6439465

Moby Dick is one of the best books that I have ever read.

Also, haven't finished DQ yet, but so far it is incredible. If anyone out there is daunted by the length, and I'll admit it is very long, I promise that it is worth it.

>>6071691

Got busy for a few days and couldn't read. Only like 215 pages in, so a long way to go still. I'm going to devote a good part of my weekend to reading it. I want to finish the first book, at least.

I really expected it to be dry, and I was going to read it basically to have read it.

IT's fucking hilarious so far. Would recommend.

>>6000421

Just finished A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge earlier today. Very good sci-fi. It had been on my to-read list for a long time, glad I finally got around to it. If you like sci-fi and haven't read this, you should.

Now reading Don Quixote. Never read it before. Haven't made much of a dent in it yet (just the prologue and first 10 chapters, I think. Around 75 pages) but I'm enjoying it more than I expected to. Legitimately funny.

Pic related, the translation that I got. All the reviews led me to Edith Grossman. Did I do good, /lit/?

>>5881878
Grossman translation. Did hours of research and reading prior to choosing, and I'm glad I stuck with this translation.
Favorite parts:
When the hunchback servant gets into his bed and he thinks she's a princess and is then proceeded to get beaten by giants
When it gets metafictional in the 2nd part talking about the fradulent DQ
The freeing of the gallery of slaves
The priest's story of Anselmo and Lothario

>>4635460
Don Quixote changed how I see the world, how I write, and how I enjoy art.

No other work has had such a profound impact on me as a person

>>4622346
>New stuff has made that old books obsolete anyway
>Seriously saying this when the greatest, most important novel of all time was also the first modern novel

Are you legitimately retarded?

I feel the need to write this.

Yesterday, I finished Don Quixote, after about two weeks of reading. I originally picked up the novel on the advice of a friend, who recommended it to me as "The greatest thing anyone shall ever read."
I, of course, was skeptical. Don Quixote did not seem like a great novel - It was written hundreds of years ago, by an author who I only knew of because of a single work. It was certainly a cornerstone of modern literature, but it was a comedy, a frivolous experience to provide amusement. Yes, comedies can sometimes create deeper meaning, but I did not believe that one could be so layered as to triumph over the other great works of literature.

I have never been so wrong in my life.

How is it possible, /lit/? How can a novel with so many obvious, glaring flaws be so divinely perfect? How can a comedy which contains scenes of a fat man being tossed in a sack penetrate the deepest human emotion?

I still think about the scenes, dream about them. The depth is staggering, the possibilities endless.

Today I was reading a different novel, the name of which I do not care to mention. Hidden between the printed lines I saw the ghost of the Knight of the Sorrowful face, I gazed upon some influence of the masterwork that I had previously completed. Every novel I have ever read has a bit of Cervantes in it, every book has something to owe to a comedy work so shoddy that the author forgets his own character's names.

How could anybody write Don Quixote?

Also, am I over-reacting or is this novel really that good?

Edith Grossman for sure. Get the copy that looks like this, it has footnotes to explain all of the references you did not catch.

Edith Grossman Edith Grossman Edith Grossman

Just finished pic related, and I really enjoyed it.

Story was interesting and entertaining all throughout and it was a fun read. Honor, romance, class distinctions, and more classical references that you'll ever find it had everything.

Also, it was better than Brothers Karamozov

I just pick up this book, and I went with the Grossman translation.

Was this the right choice, or should I have went with something else?