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Don Quixote A New Translation by Edith Grossman Miguel de Cervantes

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Don Quixote A New Translation by Edith Grossman Miguel de Cervantes

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In the author’s prologue to what is now called part I of Don

Quixote (part II appeared ten years later, in 1615, following the

publication of a continuation of the knight’s adventures written by

someone using the pseudonym “Avellaneda”), Cervantes said this

about his book and the need to write a preface for it:

I wanted only to offer it to you plain and bare, unadorned by a

prologue or the endless catalogue of sonnets, epigrams, and

laudatory poems that are usually placed at the beginning of books.

For I can tell you that although it cost me some effort to compose,

none seemed greater than creating the preface you are now

reading. I picked up my pen many times to write it, and many

times I put it down again because I did not know what to write; and

once, when I was baffled, with the paper in front of me, my pen

behind my ear, my elbow propped on the writing table and my

cheek resting in my hand, pondering what I would say, a friend of

mine ... came in, and seeing me so perplexed he asked the reason,

and I ... said I was thinking about the prologue I had to write for

the history of Don Quixote ....

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