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Other than the fact that it's new and heavily hyped, I don't know how the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote is getting so many good reviews. It seems to me that the emperor has no clothes. To me Ms. Grossman's translation is a hard read, not because of Cervantes, but because Grossman's style is jarring, lacks the humor of the original and places way too much emphasis on translating Cervantes literally at the expense of comprehension.
Here's just one example of the latter failing:
"...it still fills me with misgivings to think that powder and tin may deprive me of the opportunity to become famous and renowned throughout the known world for the valor of my arm and the sharp edge of my sword."
Powder and tin? What does that mean? It's as incomprehensible to a modern reader as it would be to a reader in any of the 400 years between today and the book's first translation into English. Clearly Edith Grossman has no clue what Cervantes is talking about, as no one uses the term "powder and tin" in English and there are any number of phrases that would get the meaning across better: "powder and shot" or "gunpowder and lead" are comprehensible even to modern readers who know next to nothing of the technologies of 17th Century firearms, so why on Earth does she opt for a translation that no one has much chance of understanding except by stumbling on the phrase and having to search for a contextual explanation?
Cervantes said that prose should be "plain," "bare" and "unadorned." Grossman's prose is anything but. Her style is adorned, puffed-up and needlessly complicated - probably because she's way too concerned with a literal translation.Read more ›
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Although I have known the tale of Don Quixote since my young age, two soft voices continued nudging me while reading this enduring treasure. One kept asking: is this a story of the futility of a mad man trying to turn back times? While the other was much more sympathetic to the valiant knight: is this a story of misguided attempts of an ultimate idealist who wants to reestablish goodness in society?
Old fashioned chivalry, apparently outdated by the mid 16th century, is the primary force that single-mindedly drives Alonso Quixano, a country noble man, to morph into the knight-errant Don Quixote da La Mancha who wants to “right every kind of wrong.” As expected from such a grandiose operation, he finds himself and his squire, Sancho Panza, in countless adventures full of humor and edification.
According to the general view, this benevolent knight is nothing more than a delusional and pitiful madman however, I think that there is reason to reconsider this old precept. As I followed Don Quixote’s actions and thoughts, a far more multifarious protagonist came to life than the fuddy-duddy, delusional leftover relic from long-gone times, as the popular judgment have regarded him. Signs of his complexity are not lost on various characters he encounters in the story. They all acknowledge a duality in his character wherein his weirdness, extravagance, and childish simplicity elicit endless taunting and cheap entertainment (see his long stay in the duke’s mansion or Don Antonio Moreno’s home), yet, in other situation he comes across as a remarkably well-informed intellect with commanding wisdom.Read more ›
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For the Samuel Putnam translation: Why read a 400-year-old, 950-page novel? Possible reasons: (1) You have heard so many references to Don Quixote, who gave a new word to our language ("quixotic"), and you want to get the whole story. (2) Don Quixote is considered the first modern novel, which within a few years of its publication in 1605 was translated into many languages and made Cervantes internationally famous in his own lifetime. (3) It is a classic of world literature. (4) You are planning a trip to Spain and you want to read Spain's most famous book by its most famous author. The book's two parts are divided into a total of 126 short chapters, which makes it convenient to read just a few pages each day and eventually finish the book. Part 1 (published 1605), which includes the tilting-at-windmills incident, seems like just a bunch of entertaining episodes with no plot. Part 2 (published 1615) has more of a plot, and is more philosophical and overall the better part, but you need to read Part 1 to fully appreciate Part 2. In Part 2 the knight's sidekick, Sancho Panza, emerges as an especially wise and lovable character, in contrast to his surface appearance as a bumbler. There are many English translations of Don Quixote, and some are more readable than others. Amazon does a disservice to its readers by putting reviews of all translations together, sometimes without indicating which review applies to which translation. I started with the Edith Grossman translation and quit halfway through Part 1. Eight years later I picked up the Samuel Putnam translation and I liked it much better (Modern Library, available for Kindle). I finished it in Barcelona, appropriately, for that is where Don Quixote finished his adventures.
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