L'ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte De La Manche - Tome I
1605
L'ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte De La Manche - Tome I
1605
Translated by Louis Viardot
Don Quixote is the story of a man who reads too many books about knights and decides to become one. That's the simple version. The deeper version is this: it's the first novel ever written, a book so radical it invented the form we now call fiction. Cervantes gives us Alonso Quijano, a middle-aged hidalgo from La Mancha who loses himself in chivalric romances until he can no longer tell the difference between literature and life. He renames himself Don Quixote, commandeers a broken-down horse named Rocinante, and rides into the Spanish countryside to battle windmills he believes are giants, all while accompanied by his earthily skeptical squire Sancho Panza. What follows is a cascade of humiliating defeats and hallucinatory victories that blur the line between heroic delusion and profound wisdom. Four centuries later, the novel's central question remains unsettling: is it noble to believe in impossible dreams, or madness to refuse the world's compromises? The answer, like the book itself, is both funny and devastating.
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“I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“En un lugar de la Mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme...””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“¿Qué gigantes?””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“La razón de la sinrazón que a mi razón se hace, de tal manera mi razón enflaquece, que con razón me quejo de la vuestra fermosura. Y también cuando””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“-Mira, Sancho, por el mesmo que denantes juraste te juro - dijo don Quijote - que tienes el más corto entendimiento que tiene ni tuvo escudero en el mundo. ¿Que es posible que en cuanto ha que andas conmigo no has echado de ver que todas las cosas de los caballeros andantes parecen quimeras, necedades y desatinos, y que son todas hechas al revés? Y no porque sea ello ansí, sino porque andan entre nosotros siempre una caterva de encantadores, que todas nuestras cosas mudan y truecan, y les vuelven según su gusto, y según tienen la gana de favorecernos o destruirnos; y así, eso que a ti te parece bacía de barbero, me parece a mí el yelmo de Mambrino, y a otro le parecerá otra cosa.””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Tú, con tu señor a acuestas; y yo, encima de ti, citando el oficio para que Dios me echó al mundo. (Don Quijote)””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Thy false promise, and my certain misfortune, do carry me to such a place, as from thence thou shalt sooner receive news of my death than reasons of my just complaints. Thou hast disdained me, O ingrate! for one that hath more, but not for one that is worth more than I am; but if virtue were a treasure of estimation, I would not emulate other men’s fortunes, nor weep thus for mine own misfortunes. That which thy beauty erected, thy works have overthrown; by it I deemed thee to be an angel, and by these I certainly know thee to be but a woman. Rest in peace, O causer of my war! and let Heaven work so that thy spouse’s deceits remain still concealed, to the end thou mayst not repent what thou didst, and I be constrained to take revenge of that I desire not.””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Everyone is the son of his works.””
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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