So LJ won't let me use the upside-down exclamation point? Then I'll use a regular one in front, so there!
I started rereading Don Quijote earlier this year, the 400th year since it was published. (The 2 diff't. spellings are because my copy in Spanish uses the "j": El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.) It's going slowly, in fits & starts as my available time varies. But keep an eye out around ch. 8, where you can see that the cliffhanger has a long & honorable history, & ch. 9, for the unusual way Cervantes resolves it.
I originally read it in college, when I was majoring in Spanish. I bought it in paperback while I was on a 2-month summer studies program in Spain, & as far as I remember, I was only about a third of the way through by the time I went back home. I thought of rereading it around 10 years ago, but then I opened the book, which is quite thick (just checked: 673 pages), & was daunted when I saw how small the type was! But now the 400th anniversary has motivated me to give it another try. I'm not very far into it yet--see above re variable reading time--& already I'm seeing how much I've forgotten. We'll see how I do over the next few...I'm guessing months. Let me know what you think of the English version, 'kat!
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Date: 2005-11-13 08:14 am (UTC)I started rereading Don Quijote earlier this year, the 400th year since it was published. (The 2 diff't. spellings are because my copy in Spanish uses the "j": El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.) It's going slowly, in fits & starts as my available time varies. But keep an eye out around ch. 8, where you can see that the cliffhanger has a long & honorable history, & ch. 9, for the unusual way Cervantes resolves it.
I originally read it in college, when I was majoring in Spanish. I bought it in paperback while I was on a 2-month summer studies program in Spain, & as far as I remember, I was only about a third of the way through by the time I went back home. I thought of rereading it around 10 years ago, but then I opened the book, which is quite thick (just checked: 673 pages), & was daunted when I saw how small the type was! But now the 400th anniversary has motivated me to give it another try. I'm not very far into it yet--see above re variable reading time--& already I'm seeing how much I've forgotten. We'll see how I do over the next few...I'm guessing months. Let me know what you think of the English version, 'kat!