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<p> Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, <i>Don Quixote</i> chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read <i>Don Quixote.</i> </p> <p> "Though there have been many valuable English translations of <i>Don Quixote,</i> I would commend Edith Grossman's version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose. The Knight and Sancho are so eloquently rendered by Grossman that the vitality of their characterization is more clearly conveyed than ever before. There is also an astonishing contextualization of Don Quixote and Sancho in Grossman's translation that I believe has not been achieved before. The spiritual atmosphere of a Spain already in steep decline can be felt throughout, thanks to her heightened quality of diction. </p> <p> Grossman might be called the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note. Reading her amazing mode of finding equivalents in English for Cervantes's darkening vision is an entrance into a further understanding of why this great book contains within itself all the novels that have followed in its sublime wake." </p> <p> From the Introduction by Harold Bloom </p> <p> Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor's prison that he began to write <i>Don Quixote.</i> Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of <i>Don Quixote.</i> He died on April 23, 1616. </p>
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Bilbao, 29 de septiembre de 1864 - Salamanca, 31 de diciembre de 1936) fue un escritor y filósofo español perteneciente a la generación del 98. En su obra cultivó gran variedad de géneros literarios, incluyendo novela, ensayo, teatro y poesía. Rector de la Universidad de Salamanca a lo largo de tres periodos, también fue diputado de las Cortes constituyentes de la Segunda República, de la que se fue distanciando hasta el punto de secundar la sublevación militar que dio inicio a la guerra civil, algo de lo que se arrepintió después públicamente.
Unamuno fue uno de los primeros existencialistas, preocupado por la tensión entre el intelecto y la emoción, la fe y la razón. Su principal ensayo filosófico fue *Del sentimiento trágico de la vida* (1912), y entre sus novelas más famosas se encuentran *Niebla* (1914), *Abel Sánchez* (1917), o *La tía Tula* (1921).
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Bilbao, September 29, 1864-Salamanca, December 31, 1936) was a Spanish writer and philosopher belonging to the generation of '98. In his work he cultivated a wide variety of literary genres, including novel, essay, theater and poetry. Rector of the University of Salamanca for three periods, he was also a deputy of the Constituent Courts of the Second Republic, from which he distanced himself to the point of supporting the military uprising that started the civil war, something of which who later publicly repented.
Unamuno was one of the first existentialists, concerned with the tension between intellect and emotion, faith and reason. His main philosophical essay was *Del sentimiento trágico de la vida* (1912), and his most famous novels, *Niebla* (1914), *Abel Sánchez* (1917), and *La tía Tula* (1921).
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