Yup, plus an NFT edition.I'm sure @Clinamenic has an author's signed copy.
I wonder why English has changed so much more than Spanish has in that time? Given that Cervantes and Shakespeare were almost exact contemporaries (died the same year, Wikipedia tells me).Just got up to the famous windmills part, loving it so far. I'll probably finish it a lot faster than I first thought. Once you get used to the deliberately archaic/chivalrous way Quijote speaks, the Spanish is very accessible, much more modern than, say, Shakespeare's English compared to now.
The nice little bite-sized chapters help a lot too.
Obviously I haven't read it, but probably yeah. Looks like it's been translated loads of times into English, and I suppose there's lots of different approaches you could take. Quijote himself is the only character that speaks old Castilian, the rest speak early modern Spanish, so representing that in English must be the biggest challenge. I've heard Edith Grossman's translation from 2003 is supposed to be really good, but no translation will ever please everybody.I wonder if the translation nonetheless sounded 'older' relative to modern English than the original would sound compared to modern Spanish?
Are you aware of the relevance of the phrase 'going to america' to Crime and Punishment?I got crime and punishment yesterday, gonna take it to America with me
I've read it, but many years ago, and can't remember anything about this phrase. Care to enlighten us?Are you aware of the relevance of the phrase 'going to america' to Crime and Punishment?
Yes! The bartender in the grotty little bar, whose face appeared "smeared with oil, like a huge iron lock", something like that.I've got about 20 pages into c&p cos that luke Turner one can wait and it's good. I love how he just introduces a character and then that character proceeds to say their whole life story, uninterrupted, for 20 pages. So talking about the drunk whose daughter has become a prostitute. He's good at describing people too, think he says somewhere how the guys face shined like oil