Don Quixote

Resumen del libro

Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation; as Salman Rushdie declares, To my mind, this is the only English rendering of the Quixote that reads like a great novel, a novel of immense daring, much wildness and many colours. It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations, unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant, foolish glory . This edition also contains new endnotes.

"Cervantes's masterpiece is lucky to have found so perfect a translator as the flamboyant Smollett. The rambunctious personalities of author and translator are ideally matched."

Biografía del autor

Diego Martínez Torrón es catedrático de Literatura Española en la Universidad de Córdoba y escritor x{0026} x02013;ensayista, poeta y narradorx{0026} x02013;. Reconocido especialista de la literatura de la época romántica española, ha trabajado igualmente la obra de Quevedo, Quintana, Lista, Espronceda, duque de Rivas, Juan Ramón, Azorín, Jorge Guillén, Bergamín, Octavio Paz, Juan Benet, Cunqueiro y Valle-Inclán, etc., aportando valiosas interpretaciones y numerosos textos inéditos de estos autores. Su edición de El ruedo ibérico, y su largo ensayo sobre esta obra, son textos de referencia, al igual que sus ediciones anotadas de la obra completa de Espronceda y Rivas. En Renacimiento ha publicado recientemente Manuscritos inéditos de El ruedo ibérico. Ha dedicado también numerosos estudios a la obra de Cervantes. Con este Quijote quiere culminar su dedicación a la Filología Española.