The Story of Don Quixote

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The first part of the book is all about how the author of the book was worried that he was not going to be able to complete the story. He paid somebody some like raisins and wheat to translate the rest of the book. And I think that that person comes back as an author in part two. The thing that he harps on for a long time before Cervantes is, it boggled my mind that no one had written all this stuff down.

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!

Find out more about how to get these episodes monthly at patreon.com/overduepod.

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