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8665492

Don Quixote Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:03:27 2016 No.8665492 [Reply] [Original]

What's the best translation of Don Quixote?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:06:22 2016 No.8665498 I like that spanish one

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:08:26 2016 No.8665503 Don't waste your time. Our guy Nabokov criticised Cervantes for a reason.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:09:54 2016 No.8665506 >>8665503 Oh... >>8665498 I don't speak spanish.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:10:26 2016 No.8665507 >>8665503 So we can ridicule him?Nabokov, I mean

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:13:35 2016 No.8665525 >>8665503 >our guy meme >nabokov our guy over melville/DFW >hating cervantes just because nabokov said so i don't even know where to begin

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:15:13 2016 No.8665531 >>8665525 >ends with a don't know where to begin I like it

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:17:51 2016 No.8665539 Okay seriously, though, what's the best translation of Don Quixote into English? I'd like to read it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:24:25 2016 No.8665562 >>8665539 smollette

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:24:43 2016 No.8665564 There are a lot of good ones. - Edith Grossman (2003, Bloom-approved) - Burton Raffel (90s, less literal, but reads extraordinarily well) - Samuel Putnam (1949, Bloom-approved again) - John Ormsby (classic) - Tobias Smollett (even more classic)

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:30:54 2016 No.8665584 >>8665492 Gross man

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:36:02 2016 No.8665597 >>8665584 >read the original meme Please

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:37:24 2016 No.8665600 >>8665525 Exactly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:38:07 2016 No.8665601 >>8665525 Start with the greeks

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:43:33 2016 No.8665618 >>8665539 You cant post on lit if you don't know Spanish.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:46:02 2016 No.8665623 >>8665618 >You cant post on lit if you don't know Spanish. k bye

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:48:59 2016 No.8665628 >>8665601 Super maximum kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:49:43 2016 No.8665630 >>8665601 lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 18:51:48 2016 No.8665636 >>8665618 Neither in /pol/.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 28 02:50:19 2016 No.8667144 >>8665506 It's not hard to learn. Every English-speaker should learn Spanish and French at least desu. They're both quite easy to learn to read (not necessarily speak/hear). The effort/reward ratio is off the charts.