I read it in translation, so I don't know what a difference that might make. Many parts of this are still hilarious after centuries, some scenes are moving, some magnificent. Talk about iconic? Tilting at windmills, Sancho Panza, Dulcinea del Toboso, a man made mad by reading too many books of chiva...
Was impressed with how well this still works despite how long ago it was written. Reminded me a bit of 1001 Nights because the numerous nested stories.
A cold pudding of a book, a persistent snore in the next room... only the infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations redeem it from utter insipidity. I know I am going to be excommunicated for this pronouncement.*ahem* Cheers [a:Nabokov|5152|Vladimir Nabokov|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/aut...
Ako želite da se uz neku knjigu smejete i plačete, nemojte čitati limunadaste bestselere domaćih spisateljica, čitajte ,,Don Kihota"! Ovo je knjiga koja me je kupila za sva vremena, knjiga posle koje sam morala da ćutim, a meni se to retko dešava. A da mi je neko pričao da će biti tako onda kada sam...
Hilarious and brilliant. If I were to read again I might approach with more patience, an episode at a time, instead of chunks of 50 to 75 pages at a time when I could. There are a lot of great, big discussions going on and a lot of foolishness. It's like a hall of mirrors, kind of leading you to loo...
Don Quixote is actually two books written about 10 years apart. Not only are they different books, but different Don Quixotes. The first is a blundering and arrogant madman. The second is a blundering and deferential madman. But it’s actually Sancho Panza who is the more interesting of the two. ...
What begins as a middle-aged country gentleman absorbed with novels of chivalry deliberately evolves into a tale of purely imaginative knight-errantry in this highly influential work of the Spanish Golden Age. This first of modern novels was written in the experimental episodic form, allowing Don Qu...
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