The History of Literature

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I'm very aware that this man thinks he's in a book that he's not in. We're going to meet D'Alcine at some point or whoever he claims is D'AlCine. And I'm just in general struck by like this book was published in the early 1600s and it's doing the, this is the history of literature about literature about history thing.

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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