Don Quijote: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

by Cervantes, Miguel De; de Armas Wilson, Diana (Editor); Raffel, Burton (Translator)

• ISBN13: 9780393972818
• ISBN10: 039397281X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator Burton Raffel's masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent, fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish. "Backgrounds and Context" invites readers to explore the creative process that culminated in the publication of Don Quijote. Included are selections from works parodied by Cervantes (Amadis of Gaul and Orlando Furioso) and a portion of the spurious sequel to Part 1 written by Fernandes de Avellaneda. "Criticisms" presents fifteen major interpretations of both the novel and selected episodes, describing Cervantes' intellectual milieu, revealing how he infused new life into the literary modes and motifs he had inherited, and illustrating the fundamental importance of Don Quijote in the history of modern fiction.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	vii	(10)
Translator's Note	xvii
The Text of Don Quijote	1	(748)
MAP: Spain at the End of the Sixteenth Century	3	(1)
MAP: Cervantes' Andalusia	4	(1)
Don Quijote	5	(744)
Backgrounds and Contexts	749	(28)
CERVANTES IN HIS OWN VOICE	749	(6)
[Fear of Publishing] (from Prologue to La Galatea)	749	(1)
[Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man] (Prologue to Exemplary Novels)	750	(2)
[Cervantes's Self-Critique] (from Voyage of Parnassus)	752	(1)
[Cervantes's Last Words] (from Prologue to Persiles and Sigismunda)	752	(3)
SOURCES AND INFLUENCES	755	(22)
Jacopo Sannazaro
From Arcadia (Chapter One)	755	(2)
Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
From Amadis of Gaul (The Penance on Poor Cliff)	757	(5)
Ludovico Ariosto
From Orlando Furioso (Canto 23)	762	(3)
Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda
Prologue to the "False Quijote"	765	(2)
Patricia Finch
John J. Allen
Don Quijote across the Centuries	767	(10)
Criticism	777	(78)
GENERAL ESSAYS ON DON QUIJOTE	777	(20)
Carlos Fuentes
Foreword	777	(2)
Harold Bloom
Cervantes: The Play of the World	779	(5)
Javier Herrero
Who Was Dulcinea?	784	(3)
Anthony J. Cascardi
Personal Identity in Don Quixote	787	(5)
Michel Foucault
[Don Quixote as Hero of the Same]	792	(5)
ESSAYS ON SELECTED EPISODES OF DON QUIJOTE	797	(50)
Elias L. Rivers
[Cervantes's Revolutionary Prologue]	797	(2)
Ruth Anthony El Saffar
In Marcela's Case	799	(6)
Robert ter Horst
Sex and the Chain Gang	805	(5)
Edward Dudley
[Rescuing Dorotea]	810	(4)
Nicolas Wey-Gomez
Anselmo's Eating Disorder	814	(7)
Maria Antonia Garces
[Cervantes's Veiled Woman]	821	(9)
Henry W. Sullivan
[The Duke's Theatre of Sadism]	830	(4)
Carroll B. Johnson
[Dreaming in the Cave of Montesinos]	834	(5)
Anne J. Cruz
Don Quijote's Disappearing Act	839	(8)
FICCIONES ON DON QUIJOTE	847	(8)
Jorge Luis Borges
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	847	(8)
Miguel de Cervantes: A Chronology	855	(2)
Selected Bibliography	857