Don Quixote

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent BRACQ" <vincent.bracq at wanadoo.fr>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: Don Quixote


> Le vendredi, 19 déc 2003, à 19:22 Europe/Paris, Ghetta Life a écrit :
>
> >
> > http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1105510,00.html
> >
> >
> > Don Quixote - the first modern novel - remains the finest. As a new
> > translation of the Spanish classic is published, Harold Bloom argues
> > that only Shakespeare comes close to Cervantes' genius
> >
> Do you know that Cervantes and Shakespeare die the same day ?
>

The article puts it even stronger:

"Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died almost simultaneously (...)."

Must've been a bad day for literature!

There's an e-text of the 1885 translation by John Ormsby.
http://www.donquixote.com/english.html

Otto