Grossman: I've never kept a translating journal, though I admire those I have read. The idea of writing about what I have written looms insurmountably as does the kind of self scrutiny required. Cervantes himself is using what would have been modern language in the book specifically so he can contrast it with the antiquated florid prose that Don Quixote himself speaks in.
Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.
These episodes cover Chapters 1-14.
In Episode 1, we do some table-setting on the author and translation, and then we dive into the first four chapters of the story. In Episode 2, our hero recruits the squire Sancho Panza and goes tilting after some windmills. Also we hear a whole story about a guy who died from lovesickness.
Join us as we meet this errant knight-errant!
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