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Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Edith Grossman

Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Edith Grossman ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 992
ISBN: 9780060934347
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

They have just published Book I of a two-volume edition of Don Quixote in the acclaimed new translation by Edith Grossman, with forty-two illustrations by William T. The new translation by Edith Grossman is excellent. Brooke Hauser, author of The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens. I've just started reading Edith Grossman's new translation, and it contains the first paragraph from several English translations. In Why Translation Matters, Edith Grossman disparages the notion that translators are supposed to make themselves invisible, which raises the question: does a good translation involve artistry or mimicry? Edith Grossman: American Treasure. Posted by bythefirelight on “I don't believe that this will change soon, since almost all publishers are part of large corporations and make their decisions under enormous pressure to be profitable.” I mention then that a few Grossman's Quixote was a major event in the world of letters, just like Lydia Davis's new translation of Madame Bovary was last year. This not a quandary afflicting translation alone: it has been suggested that Shakespeare be translated into modern English (as Grossman did from Spanish in her Don Quixote). Edith Grossman, is a national treasure! Book II will be released in 2010. Edith Grossman on the Problems of Translation in the English Language Market. Translator's Note to the Reader, Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman (Ecco, Harper Collin, New York, 2003.) "Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. If you haven't read it, drop everything and start now. I found the different translations of this sentence really interesting. Grossman relays one recommendation that a new genre of translation be created: It has been . John Leonard, The New York Review of Books [Don Quixote: Php 180.00, May 11, Book Sale - SM Mall of Asia] And this translation by Edith Grossman (with an introduction by Harold Bloom) looks like a winner! It is a beautiful, hilarious, brilliant masterpiece. Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman's new version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose.