Don Quixote: A New Translation by Edith Grossman Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Edith Grossman
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

But what struck me as most beautiful about Cervantes's Don Quixote in Edith Grossman's wonderful new translation is its inventiveness and narrative richness. The answer is in More about it soon… * Edith Grossman's translation, Ecco paperback, 2005. A new translation of Luis de Góngora's poem The Solitudes (Soledades) invites renewed interest in Góngora's work – some of the most acclaimed poetry of the Spanish Baroque. Don Quixote is inventive in the best sense of the word. Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation. You may wonder why I'm reading Don Quixote right now? You can view the Edith Grossman was the translator of this new version of The Solitudes. We were all dying to know, how did she do it? The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. In the world of literary translation Edith Grossman is a rock star. One day, I plan on making my way through her translations of Don Quixote and the works of Carlos Fuentes as well. With Edith Grossman's lively translation of Don Quixote widely available, as well as other editions, there's no excuse to put off the task that so thrilled audiences four centuries ago. On a recent evening in London her fans, including me, packed into the London Review Book In 2003 she published a new translation of Miguel de Cervantes' “Don Quixote de la Mancha” to glowing critical reviews and awe from anyone who has read that work in the original early 17th Century Spanish. Grossman's past translations include works by Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez, as well as her widely praised translation of Don Quixote. Princeton University Press 2006. Edited by Traditionally, the translator's task has been defined as the self-effacing recreation of another's text—the celebrated demonstration ad absurdum being Borges's Pierre Menard and his word-for-word replica of Don Quixote. Though there have been many valuable English translations of Don Quixote, I would commend Edith Grossman's new version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose.