Don Quixote

[Ghetta Life]

Edith Grossman's new translation is supposed to be a great improvement on 
all previous ones.  It's interesting to read this slam of DQ by someone 
who's recently been slammed so brutally about his latest work...

>From: "Jasper Fidget" <fakename at verizon.net>
>
>From Martin Amis's 1986 Atlantic Monthly article on _Don Quixote_ 
>translated
>by Tobias Smollett (reproduced in The War Against Cliché):
>
>"While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one
>fairly serious flaw–-that of outright unreadability. This reviewer should
>know, because he has just read it. The book bristles with beauties, charm,
>sublime comedy; it is also, for long stretches (approaching about 75 per
>cent of the whole), inhumanly dull.

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