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Don Quixote de La Mancha Paperback – January 1, 2009

3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Juan De LA Cuesta; Reprint edition (January 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 350 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1588711625
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1588711625
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2017
Not even close to as good as the original, a simplistically mad Don Quixote and one dimensionally stupid Sancho panza. Still worth reading for comparison -- and because Cervantes talks so much about this version in his version!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2015
The copy I received is way nicer than the picture suggests. It came as a hardback with dark brown wood varnish looking finish. Included were a map and illustrations. This book turned out way nicer than I thought it would. The quality of the narrative was right up there with Cervantes. If you liked Cervantes you'll like Avallenada, despite their animosity towards one another. A must for Don Quixote fans.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2018
To read Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE unabridged is to become aware of Avellaneda's "spurious" version; but for many years I had assumed it was among those books lost in the mists of time. Only in 2017 did I learn that it has apparently been available right along in its native Spain, and sporadically in English translation. Finding that probably the most recent English translation was available in an affordable edition, I hatched the plan of reading all three parts in order of their original appearance: Cervantes Part I, Avellaneda, and Cervantes Part II. For Cervantes, it is my third time through, at least; for Avellaneda, the initial experience aside from what Cervantes says about it.
I almost bogged down in Avellaneda's continuation. It has a few interesting new characters, and I won't deny that I chuckled quite a bit; but it lacks Cervantes' charm. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are mere shallow caricatures of themselves. Acknowledging that this may represent the way they seemed to their first readers more accurately than the image we have built of them after several centuries of re-interpretation; still, I can't help but think that Cervantes' reported anger at Avellaneda (whoever that pseudonym conceals) likely arose from the way he found his creations mishandled. Cervantes' Part II is critically regarded as greater than his Part I, and I think there is a very good chance that this is largely thanks to his reaction against Avellaneda's work: if so, in a curious way the world owed Avellaneda quite a lot. It's a fascinating literary situation that would have had a very hard time happening in our era of paranoid copyright -- but the only real reason I can see to read Avellaneda today is interest in the said situation. Without Avellaneda, we would certainly have a more or less different Part II of the “true” DON QUIXOTE; I can’t help but worry if Cervantes would ever have gotten his Part II to the printer at all; the “spurious” continuation is an important book for that reason. But its literary importance is the only reason I can find for reading it today or keeping a copy of it on one’s shelf. That, and the further depth of appreciation it gives one in reading Cervantes. It was a wonderful relief to get back to the genuine Quixote and find all the magic still there and even a bit enhanced.
Nevertheless, this volume is handsomely published, the illustrations are delightful, and I greatly respect the scholarship that went into the translation and editorial matter. (It's a pity the proofreading isn't up to the level of the printing, binding, and illustrating; but the many typographical errors don't hamper understanding the text.) And Avellaneda's last page proposes an outline for yet another sequel which strikes me as so promising I can't think why nobody ever followed up on it. Perhaps Cervantes forestalled any such effort by finally killing off his Quixote. Pity. I found that one paragraph worth more than all the rest of Avellaneda’s sequel together.
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