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Don Quixote (ABCD lassics) by [Miguel Cervantes, ABCD Classics]

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Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years.

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Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda's (1547-1616) life was occupied with a struggle to earn a livelihood from literature and humble government employment. As well as Don Quixote, he wrote a number of plays and a collection of highly accomplished short stories, Exemplary Tales (1613). --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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John Rutherford ... makes Don Quixote funny and readable . His Quixote can be pompous, imposingly learned, secretly fearful, mad and touching -- Colin Burrow * The Times Literary Supplement * --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079C3DPBY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ AB Books (January 26, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 26, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2032 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 1075 pages

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 29 de septiembre de 1547-Madrid, 22 de abril de 1616) fue un soldado, novelista, poeta y dramaturgo español.

Es considerado la máxima figura de la literatura española y es universalmente conocido por haber escrito Don Quijote de la Mancha, que muchos críticos han descrito como la primera novela moderna y una de las mejores obras de la literatura universal, además de ser el libro más editado y traducido de la historia, sólo superado por la Biblia. Se le ha dado el sobrenombre de «Príncipe de los Ingenios».

Cervantes es sumamente original. Parodiando un género que empezaba a periclitar, como el de los libros de caballerías, creó otro género sumamente vivaz, la novela polifónica, donde se superponen las cosmovisiones y los puntos de vista hasta confundirse en complejidad con la misma realidad, recurriendo incluso a juegos metaficcionales. En la época la épica podía escribirse también en prosa, y con el precedente en el teatro del poco respeto a los modelos clásicos de Lope de Vega, le cupo a él en suma fraguar la fórmula del realismo en la narrativa tal y como había sido preanunciada en España por toda una tradición literaria desde el Cantar del Mío Cid, ofreciéndosela a Europa, donde Cervantes tuvo más discípulos que en España. La novela realista entera del siglo XIX está marcada por este magisterio. Por otra parte, otra gran obra maestra de Cervantes, las Novelas ejemplares, demuestra la amplitud de miras de su espíritu y su deseo de experimentar con las estructuras narrativas. En esta colección de novelas el autor experimenta con la novela bizantina (La española inglesa), la novela policíaca o criminal (La fuerza de la sangre, El celoso extremeño), el diálogo lucianesco (El coloquio de los perros), la miscelánea de sentencias y donaires (El licenciado Vidriera), la novela picaresca (Rinconete y Cortadillo), la narración constituida sobre una anagnórisis (La gitanilla), etc.

La Editorial Alvi Books le dedicó, como tributo y reconocimiento, este espacio en Amazon en 2016.

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H. Hill

Laughs all the way through

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2023

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A true masterpiece. Subtle & slanted humor and worth every minute.

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TomTommyC

1072 Pages!!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023

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I had never read this and decided that I should. I guess I did not pay enough attention when I ordered it, but I was shocked when it arrived. The thing is near the size and weight of a cinder block. 1072 pages including prologue and end notes etc. The language is a bit archaic, or surprisingly fresh for a book written in early 1600's, depending on how you look at it. Anyway, I am only about 300 pages in, but definitely enjoying the read so far. No regrets, just surprised at the length.

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Aran Joseph Canes

The Subtleties of Cervantes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2021

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Don Quixote is both an easy read and an incredibly subtle work. It’s an easy read if one focuses on the adventures, or misadventures, of its protagonist. On the surface the author intends to simply describe the unnecessary chaos and suffering caused a man who has been driven mad by over-reading the works of chivalry.

But then you realize that the author is quite consciously giving birth to a new art form. Since the days of chivalry have passed, secular literature needs the novel to depict the disenchanted modern world.

And then you further realize that many of the stories and characters still seem drawn from works of chivalry. And Don Quixote the character encounters people who’ve read about Don Quixote. And then, odd parallels appear that seem to question the surface meaning of the text: there is the heroic daughter of a Moor who steals her father’s riches and flees to Christendom right next to the foolish Christian who steals her father’s riches to run off with a solider. Did Cervantes really intend to say the one is foolish and the other brave?

It’s no wonder Don Quixote has been a favorite of authors from Dostoevsky to Faulkner. The meta themes of the nature of literature and the nature of modernity must have inspired an author like Faulkner. He too invented a new form of fiction and reflected on the changes in culture between the antebellum and modern American South.

I don’t claim to have solved all these questions, if they can even be solved, but they have left me with a profound respect for Cervantes as one of the great lights of humanity. The cliche rendering of Don Quixote as simply about a chivalrous madman out in search of bygone days couldn’t be further from the truth. Perhaps I will, like Faulkner, reread it year after year to come to a greater understanding not only of this text but of our shared human condition.

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Defining the Self

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“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.” - Daniel Burnham

This quote summarizes the key aspect of Don Quixote that I enjoy so much. The power of imagination to move us beyond are pre-defined selves and create a world for ourselves as we see fit. This is of course idealistic and the realities of life prove routinely that obstacles will often interrupt us along the way. I first read this book in 1998 in college. Back then I took from it mostly the idea of the conflict of self identity matched up against outside perceptions and expectations. That interpretation was particularly important for me as a black male in an American culture that routinely tries to define for me, who I am and what I am capable of; despite all my wildest dreams that crave more.

In this second reading, many of Cervantes’ genius literary triumphs really jumped out at me. His subtle and hilarious use of “Breaking the 4th wall.” The use of all of the subplots and characters to illustrate the crossroads of culture, Moorish and Christian, Chivalry and Rule of Law, along with Romanticism and Realism. Cervantes often self-references the labyrinth of layers upon layers of deep social and literary commentary of the times in which he was writing. Some of which, particularly the class, religious, and racial turmoil remain with us today.

Still, it remains the narrative about what or who is the ultimate authority on what and/or how we define the self that most intrigues me. In truth, the idea of the self is a complex formula. We are the careful balance of experience, wit, luck, and a little madness. Outside perceptions are then layered on this amalgamation of individual chemistry. This combination results in the same person waffling between genius and madman, when viewed in a myriad of different ways by an array of different eyes. Don Quixote is the vehicle by Which Cervantes masks scalding social criticism couched in the persona of a mad man.

This sprawling novel that traverses the canyons between madness and sanity is a story of unbridled experience. We all want to live lives full adventure, but the world and our “place” in it often keeps us within limits that say this is ok and this is crazy. I love this journey because I believe that if we, like Don Quixote, live life as we define it, the stories would have been worth it.

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Kaz

Long, tedious and boring

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 16, 2020

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If you enjoy slapstick comedy, toilet humour and jokes (often cruel and mocking) made at the expense of others, and want to give your brain a total break, you’ll probably love this. However, if you’re looking for something inspiring with at least a hint of a plot, don’t bother.
The book is 1077-pages long and the style is as long-winded as it is old-fashioned (typical turn of the 16-17th century, I suppose). The jokes get tedious, repetitive, gratuitous, even nasty, and the story is going nowhere.

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Luke Dennison

Fun, but long

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 9, 2022

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Although good reads had this down at 1000 pages, my kindle had this down at over 1300.

At therein lies the problem I had with this book. It is well written and cracks a long and a good pace. However, there is no real story here but just a series of events and although they are entertaining they are also a bit repetitive.

It is clear that Cervantes' book is a satire based on books of chivalry but as I haven't read any of those, despite me getting the joke, maybe it didn't have as much as impact as it might have done otherwise.

Overall, I found this fun but very long and it became a war of attrition at the end.

Andy Noble

An all time classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 12, 2018

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It took time to get into the tale. The first third was a struggle as my mind adapted to the language and flow of the book. But after a while I got the rhythm, the humour and the joy this book brings. I was actually sad to end my travels with Don Quixote and Rancho Panza.

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first part hilarious

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 25, 2019

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I finally got around to reading this one and was shocked by how funny the first part, a literary parody, was. Don Quixote, not a likely here but he certainly tries. Good thing he’s got his side-kick, Sancho Panza close by.

The second part was a change, more sombre in tone but I thought it worked and together made a great read.

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Ali

Love this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 3, 2020

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I really enjoyed this book and found the notes at the back quite helpful, but the cover faded a bit after I read the book so it doesn't look as good as when I started reading it, I think that's the combination of the oil in my hands and the material of the book but it was otherwise good, very pleased

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