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Anonymous Wed Jul 21 01:15:20 2021 No.18691468 [Reply] [Original]

Which of Cervantes' non-Quixote works are worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 02:18:14 2021 No.18691710 >>18691468 I've read Examplary Novellas. They're 50:50, either generic or excellent.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 02:54:57 2021 No.18691881 >>18691710 If you read them in Spanish, some of them are at the level of Don Quijote, see: 'El coloquio de los perros', 'La gitanilla' and 'El licenciado vidriera'.

Anonymous Wed Jul 21 03:01:36 2021 No.18691918

>>18691881
I read them in translation. The Dialogue of Dogs and Vidriera were indeed excellent. La gitanilla was more on the generic side, considering the whole collection, belonging to the type of love+adventure tales, which got samey after a while, but it was still good within that group/type.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 03:15:25 2021 No.18691972 >>18691918 >La gitanilla was more on the generic side (...) probably because of the many songs that the story has, idk. What edition did you read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 03:16:04 2021 No.18691976 >>18691468 La Galatea

Anonymous Wed Jul 21 03:22:01 2021 No.18691997

>>18691972
No, it's the sort of story that's generic, the adventuring with a maximally contrived happy love ending. It is interesting to read if you focus on the details of the portrayal of the society, but the whole is not very intriguing to me.
The poems were apparently difficult to translate and I didn't enjoy them, but I don't think they could determine how much I enjoy the story overall.
I read a Croatian translation that was actually a selection of around half of the stories, and along the way I read a Serbian translation for the missing ones.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 04:04:31 2021 No.18692133 >>18691997 The story does not seem generic to me but I understand what you mean, the most impressive thing is that it always has an aesthetic value but without pretense. Even in Spanish the poems are a bit exhausting for today's reader.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 04:18:34 2021 No.18692182 >>18691976 He shilled this in Don Quixote.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 04:59:24 2021 No.18692301 >non-Quixote You clever little bitch

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 05:10:42 2021 No.18692325 >>18692301 Thanks! I didn't think anyone would notice!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 05:35:41 2021 No.18692411 >>18692301 ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 05:36:58 2021 No.18692418 >>18692301 Hehe

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 05:39:41 2021 No.18692429 Didn't Cervantes turn out to be Shakespeare under a pseudonym?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 21 05:42:18 2021 No.18692437 >>18692429 Other way around.

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