The Power of Wordplay in Translation

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The next time we're going to be reading chapters 15 through 21, which I believe Don Gaudy is going to wind up at an in and get up to some more shenanigans. There's actually a little passage in here where they talk about how translations are sort of pointless because you can never like translate the original intent or like the original poetry of the words into another language. So this is our second episode, which means it'll be at the end of the combo app for folks. Thank you all for listening.

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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