The Conversation: Can books be bad for you? Only if you’re a ‘bad reader’ like Don Quixote
An illustration from an edition of Don Quixote where the eponymous protagonist goes mad from reading. Wikimedia, CC BY Books as a backdrop in a portrait or an interview lend gravitas. They stand for ...
Can books be bad for you? Only if you’re a ‘bad reader’ like Don Quixote
IF a new translation of Don Quixote should seem to any one a dispensable luxury, it may at least be said that of all luxuries a classic in a satisfactory edition is the most innocent, and among the ...
IT is always good news to hear that new champions are coming forward to translate Don Quixote into English. It is a bold deed, well worthy a knight-errant of the pen ; and if many men make the attempt ...
A MAN CALLED CERVANTES—Bruno Frank—Viking ($2.50). In 50 words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: “A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, ...
HENDERSON, THE RAIN KING (341 pp.) —Saul Bellow—Viking ($4.50). Is Don Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as “the World—that ...
A new translation of Don Quixote. Edith Grossman’s new translation of Don Quixote is a pleasure to read, not a chore. Easy, vernacular, high-conversational in tone, written in the long sentences of an ...
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