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Don Quixote: Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)

Autor Miguel de Cervantes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2020

Unde se termină iluzia și unde începe realitatea atunci când un spirit nobil refuză să accepte banalitatea lumii? Considerăm că Don Quixote nu este doar o parodie a romanelor cavalerești, ci o meditație profundă asupra condiției umane, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care ne construim propriile adevăruri. Putem afirma că aventura cavalerului tristei figuri și a fidelului său scutier, Sancho Panza, transcende simplul comic, transformându-se într-o explorare sofisticată a onoarei și a nebuniei. În tradiția lui Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, acest roman din seria Wordsworth Classics păstrează spiritul originalului prin traducerea clasică a lui P. A. Motteux, reușind să captureze ironia subtilă care a fascinat generații de artiști. Comparându-l cu edițiile din Oxford World's Classics, prezenta versiune pune un accent deosebit pe accesibilitate, fără a sacrifica profunzimea academică oferită de notele explicative. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de lucrarea sa pastorală timpurie, La Galatea, Don Quixote reprezintă apogeul maturității literare a lui Cervantes, unde structura narativă devine mult mai complexă, integrând personaje din toate straturile sociale. Ritmul lecturii alternează între episoade dinamice, precum celebra luptă cu morile de vânt, și dialoguri filozofice dense care chestionează limitele virtuții. Este o experiență de lectură care ne invită să privim lumea nu așa cum este, ci așa cum ar putea fi prin ochii unui idealist incurabil.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781513220697
ISBN-10: 1513220691
Pagini: 776
Dimensiuni: 132 x 209 x 49 mm
Greutate: 1.01 kg
Editura: Mint Editions
Colecția Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
Seria Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)


De ce să citești această carte

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.


Notă biografică

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was an Early Modern Spanish author, usually recognized as the finest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's best novelists (29 September 1547 (assumed) - 22 April 1616). His most famous work, Don Quixote, is frequently recognized as both the first modern novel and one of the greatest works of literature ever written. Many of his early works were lost as a result of the fact that he spent a large portion of his life in poverty and obscurity. In spite of this, Spanish is frequently referred to as "the language of Cervantes," which reflects his influence and literary contribution. Cervantes was compelled to leave Spain in 1569 and relocate to Rome, where he took a job in a cardinal's household. He joined a Spanish Navy infantry battalion in 1570 and suffered severe injuries at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571. He served as a soldier up until 1575 when Barbary pirates kidnapped him; after spending five years in prison, he was freed and sent back to Madrid. Despite the fact that he remained to work as a purchasing agent and eventually as a government tax collector after his first notable novel, La Galatea was published in 1585.

Descriere scurtă

"Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skylines 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 "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 Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote is regarded not only as the first modern novel, but also as one of the most important works of fiction ever produced. The subtle and hopeful irony, resplendent variety of characters and its thoroughly entertaining sense of adventure and friendship has dazzled readers for more than four hundred years. It was published in Spain in two volumes, first in 1605 then followed by the second in 1615. Cervantes' use of realism and everyday language in Don Quixote was revolutionary at the time, and its influence on the development of literature may only be surpassed by the work of Shakespeare. In the opening of this extraordinary book, Alonso Quijano, a noble living in sixteenth-century Spain, has become consumed with the act of reading, and subsequently assumes the identity of the chivalrous knights that he loves to read about. Transformed into Don Quixote, he embarks on his first ill-fated journey as a "knight". The defeated Quixote returns home, to only prepare himself better for the next adventure of delusion. On his second journey Quixote has enlisted the peasant Sancho Panza to appropriate the role of his squire. Although the duo is ridiculously mismatched in every sense, their inextricable bond is one of the most fascinating of friendships ever created on paper. Between their disordered adventures -of battling windmills and herds of sheep and endless mishaps- are the stories of those who are encountered on the journey. The book eventually becomes a hall of mirrors, and Cervantes explores preconceptions of narrative, reliability, and morality that are strikingly modern. Ultimately, Quixote's preposterous fantasies become haunting as the reader of this book will surely begin to question what is real and what is not. The story of Don Quixote has been adapted into numerous forms, including opera, musicals, ballets, music and film. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Don Quixote is both modern and readable. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

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A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare's fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative momentum with a profound examination of how psychological coercion mixed with personal ambition can lead to murder - and how individual impulses can shape both a man's own destiny and the course of history.

First performed in around 1606 and published in the First Folio of 1623, Macbeth is presented here in a fully annotated edition that will make the text accessible to twenty-first-century readers, enabling them to appreciate its poetry and encouraging them to delve deeper into its variegated and complex history.

Textual Approach:
Light editorial approach making the text more accessible to modern readers - Meticulous editing, faithful to the first Folio of 1623 - Over 900 textual notes for a clearer or fuller understanding of a word, sentence or passage - Historical notes at the end of the book Additional notes about variants - Appendix with modernised and annotated Holinshed text - Includes Middleton's witches' songs - Takes into consideration all modern Shakespeare scholarship - Provides new insight into one of Shakespeare's major tragedies.

Recenzii

Harrison's language captures the style of the original.... Ambrus's artwork is well suited to the story; he captures the personalities of both knight and squire without reducing them to caricatures.
Children will find this a fast-paced, readable introduction to Cervantes' novel.