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(4.07) | 6 / 716 | "Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain."--Jacket.… (more) |
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▾LibraryThing Recommendations  6 1 Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (hdcclassic)hdcclassic: A modern-day retelling. 4 0 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (keremix) 6 2 Don Quixote de La Mancha, Part II by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda (g026r)g026r: The spurious continuation, published in 1614 while Cervantes was still working on his own Part II and which affected that work to a significant degree. 3 0 Orlando Furioso, Part One by Ludovico Ariosto (Lirmac)Lirmac: References to then-famous romances, such as this one by Ariosto, provide much of the humour in Don Quixote. In addition to enriching Cervantes' work, Orlando Furioso is entertaining in its own right (especially in this modern verse translation). 4 1 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (ateolf) 6 3 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Othemts) 6 4 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (DLSmithies)DLSmithies: Don Quixote was Flaubert's favourite book, and I've read somewhere that the idea of Madame Bovary is to re-tell the story of Don Quixote in a different context. Don Quixote is obsessed with chivalric literature, and immerses himself in it to the extent that he loses his grip on reality. Emma Bovary is bewitched by Romantic literature in the same way. There are lots of parallels between the two novels, and I think putting them side by side can lead to a better understanding of both.… (more) 2 0 Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory (CGlanovsky)CGlanovsky: Read the two concurrently and got a good sense of the kind of chivalric literature that gave birth to Quixote's madness. 2 0 Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes (longway) 2 0 Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (CGlanovsky)CGlanovsky: In several of his critical essays Borges makes insightful and unique mention of Don Quixote sometimes directly and sometimes in reference to other works. 1 0 The Adventures of a Simpleton by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (chwiggy) 1 0 The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (Rubbah) 0 0 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (TheLittlePhrase)TheLittlePhrase: protagonists who struggle to differentiate between reality & the books that they read 1 1 Meerfahrt mit Don Quijote by Thomas Mann (chwiggy) 5 5 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (caflores) 1 1 Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán (roby72) 1 1 Handling Sin by Michael Malone (allenmichie) 0 1 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (CGlanovsky)CGlanovsky: Misguided protagonist gets into a series of misadventures
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» See also 716 mentions » Add other authors (158 possible) Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Author | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Cervantes | — | main author | all editions | confirmed | Adler, Mortimer J. | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Alcina, Juan | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Allaigre, Claude | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Allen, John Jay | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Almeida, Andréa Vilela de | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Ambrus, Victor G. | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Arcuri, Paulo | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Ardizzone, Edward | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Arroyo, Florencio Sevilla | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Astrana Marín, Luis | Estudi crític | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Auerbach, Erich | Contributor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Ayala, Francisco | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Baldwin, James | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Bardon, Maurice | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Basanta, Angel | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Battestin, Martin C. | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Benyhe, János | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Bergquist, Ingrid | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Blake, Quentin | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Blecua, José Manuel | Contributor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Bleznick, Donald William | — | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Block, Harry | Book Designer. | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Bloom, Harold | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Bogin, Magda | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Boix, Manuel | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Boyd, Stephen | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Braunfels, Ludwig | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Brickell, Herschel | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Brodt, Marcio | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Buchan, William | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Bulbena i Tosell, Antoni | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Burt, Mary E. | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Canavaggio, Jean | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Canavaggio, Jean | Preface | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Cano, Juan | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Carlesi, Ferdinando | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Carreras, Jorge | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Casalduero, Joaquín | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Case, David | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Cassou, Jean | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Cassou, Jean | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Castro, Americo | Preface | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Chapman, Robin | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Chappell, Warren | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Clemencín, Diego | Comentarios | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Close, A. 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Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable.  Prologue: Idle reader: I don't have to swear any oaths to persuade you that I should like this book, since it is the son of my brain, to be the most beautiful and elegant and intelligent book imaginable.  Chapter 1: In a village in La Mancha, the name of which I cannot quite recall, there lived not long ago one of those country gentlemen or hidalgos who keep a lance in a rack, an ancient leather shield, a scrawny hack and a greyhound for coursing.  | |
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And as I have heard say, true love cannot be divided, and must be voluntary and unforced: -- this being so, as I believe it is, why would you have me subject my will by force, being not otherwise obliged thereto, than only because you say you love me? For, pray tell me, if as heaven has made me handsome, it had made me ugly, would it have been just that I should have complained of you because you did not love me? (Part 1, Chapter 14. Marcela is speaking)  Heaven has not yet ordained that I should love by destiny; and from loving by choice, I desire to be excused. (Part 1, Chapter 14. Marcela is speaking)  | |
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And with this you will fulfill you Christian duty, by giving good counsel to those who do not wish you well, and I shall be pleased and proud to have been the first who completely enjoyed the fruits of his writing, just as he wished, for my only desire has been to have people reject and despise the false and nonsensical histories of the books of chivalry , which are already stumbling over the history of my true Don Quixote, and will undoubtedly fall to the ground. Vale. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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Don Quixote was originally published in two parts. This is the complete and unabridged version, containing both parts. Please do not combine with abridged or incomplete versions.  | |
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Así, Mario Vargas Llosa analiza la modernidad del Quijote en «Una novela para el siglo xxi»; Francisco Ayala reflexiona sobre la construcción de los personajes de la novela en «La invención del Quijote», y Martín de Riquer analiza la obra en el contexto biográfico del autor en «Cervantes y el Quijote». Por su parte, José Manuel Blecua («El Quijote en la historia de la lengua española»), Guillermo Rojo («Cervantes como modelo lingüístico»), José Antonio Pascual («Los registros lingüísticos del Quijote: la distancia irónica de la realidad»), Margit Frenk («Oralidad, escritura, lectura») y Claudio Guillén («Cauces de la novela cervantina: perspectivas y diálogos») abordan distintos aspectos relacionados con la lengua española en la obra cervantina. A todos ellos se une en esta ocasión el actual director de la RAE, Darío Villanueva, que ha querido «aprovechar la oportunidad de oro que me ofrece hoy la nueva salida de esta edición [...] para dar una explicación —mi explicación— de algunos de los porqués del tan alto reconocimiento que el Quijote ha obtenido desde la fecha de su publicación hasta hoy, así como su palmaria modernidad», antes de recordar que el Quijote fue la obra elegida, en 2002, como la mejor novela de todos los tiempos, por delante de En busca del tiempo perdido, de Proust, y de Guerra y paz, de Tolstoi, en una encuesta realizada por la Asociación de Escritores de Suecia entre cien autores de todo el mundo. (