The writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte has read the Don Quixote with the look of a fifteen years before adapt the great Cervantes’ work for school edition has published the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), which considers this “fundamental to all Spanish-speaking students” novel.
The Academy “claimed the return of Don Quixote a teaching plans” and does so from the authority to give its hundred years of existence, said yesterday the secretary of the RAE, Dario Villanueva, presenting at the headquarters of this institution popular and school edition of this work, published by Santillana throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
The Don Quixote , Pérez-Reverte said, “is a unifying factor on both sides of the Atlantic and, unfortunately, his reading is compulsory in only six speaking countries Hispanic “.
This popular edition of Don Quixote can be “a great tool for teaching job,” said Pérez-Reverte, who respected the “maximum” the text of Cervantes, if However, for readability, eliminated “everything that was not strictly narrative and broke the main storyline”.
“A lucid and competent teacher can spend a whole year talking about the Don Quixote “, provided you have adequate youth edition. And speaking of Don Quixote is “talk about ethics, morality, solidarity, compassion, dignity in failure, history, memory,” said the author of The Dumas Club or El tango de la Guardia Vieja .
Pérez-Reverte made it clear that the popular edition of this great work “no substitute” its full version, but “is a door for further reading, facilitates transit.”
As recalled by Dario Villanueva, the Academy received in 1920 commissioned by the Government to make a school edition of Don Quixote , which was mandatory reading in Spanish schools then. It’s been almost a century since that order, and now when the institution has been able to do it. The RAE also published in 2004 a scholarly and critical edition of this work, directed by Francisco Rico, and will this great cervantista who serve in 2015 a new edition of Don Quixote in the Collection of Classics of Academia.
The school edition incorporates original and unpublished sketches that were made to the engravings of Don Quixote Academic, 1780, including an illustration of a young Francisco de Goya – “paradoxes of life “- did not get to be included in this book.
Pérez-Reverte has sought to “pruning” it has made to the popular edition “not notice” that the reader does not perceive at what times had cut the text. And he has used “language of Cervantes always time” when he had to replace a few words, “Never modern language”.
The edition of Don Quixote of the RAE has enjoyed the supervision of Carlos Domínguez Tapes philologist, who has also collaborated directed by Francisco Rico.
“The Academy considers essential to Don Quixote . There is a homeland of the Spanish language, shared by 500 million people, and the flag of the old country, noble, is the Don Quixote , “said Pérez-Reverte.
The novelist believes that the reading of this work may be important “at a time in which we witness a loss of ethical, moral and otherwise, which also affects the curricula values and at a time when the European Union from being dismantled three thousand years of memory and European culture. ”
So, considered “a crime that this work will go away from the Spanish school horizon, because it is the book that more educational opportunities has. The Don Quixote make good citizens, decent men “said Pérez-Reverte.
To Dario Villanueva, “is a mistake” in the prime educational plans “the urgency of the pragmatic” and that education is conceived to train people “in terms of productive and more immediate needs.” He, as a teacher, knows that these criteria literature “always loses,” but in the battle to claim the reading of the classics Academy “does not give defeated”.
Finally, the author of La Reina del Sur said that the state “abandoned” the RAE and “is in breach of the obligation” which has to support the work of this institution. This criticism of the government came after the state assignment to the Academy has fallen by 60% over the past five years, which has contributed to the difficult economic situation of the institution.
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