The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Vol. 1 of 4 It is Often said that we have no satisfactory trans lation of Don Quixote TO those who are familiar with the original, it savors of truism or platitude to say so, for in truth there can be no thoroughly satis factory translation Of Don Quixote into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly unmanageable, or that the untranslatable words, numerous enough no doubt, are so superabun dant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the humor Of the book owes its ¿avor is peculiar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The dilemma of the translator frequently is this, that terseness is essential to the humor of the phrase or passage, but if he translates he will not be terse, and if he would be terse he must paraphrase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.