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Don Quixote

Autor Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Traducere de Kimi Traube
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 feb 2027

În câmpiile aride și prăfuite din La Mancha, la începutul secolului al XVII-lea, timpul pare să se fi oprit pentru un hidalgo de vreo cincizeci de ani. Alegerea acestui decor spaniol nu este întâmplătoare; asprimea peisajului contrastează violent cu iluziile cavalerești ale lui Alonso Quixano, oferind scena perfectă pentru o prăbușire a mitului în realitate. Suntem de părere că Don Quixote nu este doar o parodie a genului cavaleresc, ci o explorare melancolică a condiției umane, unde granița dintre nebunie și noblețe devine fluidă.

Subliniem modul în care Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra revoluționează structura narativă prin utilizarea metateatrului și a intertextualității, tehnici ce conferă romanului o modernitate surprinzătoare chiar și după patru secole. Stilul are ceva din profunzimea psihologică și ironia fină pe care o regăsim în Don Quixote de la Mancha din seria Oxford World's Classics, fără să fie o imitație — Cervantes reușește aici să echilibreze discursurile retorice arhaice ale cavalerului cu spiritul practic și pământean al lui Sancho Panza.

Această lucrare se poziționează ca punctul culminant al operei sale, rafinând temele explorate în Exemplary Stories. Dacă în acele povestiri autorul experimenta cu ambiguitatea morală și realismul satiric, în Don Quixote el atinge o maturitate filosofică ce l-a determinat pe Dostoievski să o numească „cea mai mare expresie a minții umane”. Este un text dens, dar ritmat de aventurile burlești ale celor doi protagoniști, oferind o experiență de lectură ce trece constant de la râs la o reflecție profundă asupra viselor noastre.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780393867251
ISBN-10: 0393867250
Pagini: 992
Editura: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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Pentru cititorul care dorește să descopere fundamentul literaturii moderne, Don Quixote este o achiziție esențială. Câștigați acces la o operă votată de scriitori din întreaga lume drept cel mai bun roman din toate timpurile. Această ediție este ideală pentru cei care apreciază textele clasice în limba engleză, oferind un echilibru perfect între divertismentul comic și reflecția existențială profundă.


Despre autor

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) este figura centrală a literaturii spaniole, adesea numită chiar „limba lui Cervantes”. Viața sa a fost marcată de aventuri la fel de dramatice ca ficțiunile sale: a fost rănit în bătălia de la Lepanto și a petrecut cinci ani în captivitate la pirații berberi. Deși a scris poezie și teatru, succesul universal a venit târziu, odată cu publicarea celor două părți din Don Quixote. Opera sa a pus bazele romanului polifonic, influențând decisiv direcția prozei occidentale prin amestecul inovator de realism și fantezie, scris în ultimii săi ani de viață sub protecția Contelui de Lemos.


Descriere scurtă

This bold new translation of one of the world's greatest novels gives us Don Quixote as it was for Cervantes's first readers: a rollicking, uproarious comedy. With stylish, inventive verve and while avoiding the embalming literalism that has flattened many modern translations, Kimi Traube captures the comic zing of Cervantes's puns, slapstick, and satire with wit that lands for a twenty-first-century audience.

Yet the comedy never comes at the expense of faithfulness to Cervantes's vision or the book's cultural significance. Cervantes's farce was always a vehicle for bigger questions: How do we know what is true? Who has the authority to tell a story? How does power warp our perception of reality? By bringing the humor back to life, Traube lets those questions sting anew, reminding us why Don Quixote is not just funny, but also one of the first modern-and most enduringly subversive-novels in world literature. This is the Don Quixote for a new generation.


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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray, tilting at windmills, fighting with friars, and distorting the rural Spanish landscape into a fantasy of impenetrable fortresses and wicked sorcerers. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with.


Notă biografică

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra was born in Spain in 1547 to a family once proud and influential but now fallen on hard times. His father, a poor barber-surgeon, wandered up and down Spain in search of work. Educated as a child by the Jesuits in Seville, the creator of Don Quixote grew up to follow the career of a professional soldier. He was wounded at Lepanto in 1571, captured by the Turks in 1575, imprisoned for five years, and was finally rescued by the Trinitarian friars in 1580. On his return to Spain he found his family more impoverished than ever before. Supporting his mother, two sisters, and an illegitimate daughter, he settled down to a literary career and had hopes of becoming a successful playwright, but just then the youthful Lope de Vega entered triumphantly to transform the Spanish theatre by his genius. Galatea, a pastoral romance, was published in 1585, the year of Cervantes’ marriage to Catalina de Palacios y Salazar Vozmediano. But it did not bring him an escape from poverty, and he was forced to become a roving commissary for the Spanish armada. This venture, which led to bankruptcy and jail, lasted for fifteen years. Although he never knew prosperity, Cervantes did gain a measure of fame during his lifetime, and Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were known all over the world. Part I of Don Quixote was published in 1605; in 1613, his Exemplary Novels appeared, and these picaresque tales of romantic adventure gained immediate popularity. Journey to Parnassas, a satirical review of his fellow Spanish poets, appeared in 1614, and Part II of Don Quixote in 1615 as well as Eight Plays and Eight Interludes. Miguel de Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as the death of Shakespeare--his English contemporary, his only peer.

Recenzii

"The highest creation of genius has been achieved by Shakespeare and Cervantes, almost alone." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky



"What a monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!" —Thomas Mann



"Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer vitality....The parody has become a paragon." —Vladimir Nabokov

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