The celebration of the fourth centenary of the second part of the Don Quixote had a new chapter yesterday. At the headquarters of the Royal Spanish Academy he was presented a new and “monumental” two-volume edition of Cervantes’ novel, extensively revised and renewed, with the participation of over one hundred specialists and writers. The coordination was provided by the philologist Francisco Rico, an expert on the work, and is the jewel in the crown of Classical Academy Library, 111 volumes that brings together the best titles in Spanish and enjoys the patronage of Social Work la Caixa.
Published by Espasa and now Ballantine Books, this edition adds to the Don Quixote by popular novelist Arturo Perez-Reverte which was launched in 2014. As noted the secretary of the Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado, the first volume, 1644-page text contains Cervantes, set “with the most rigorous techniques” of modern philology, and also adds a number of introductions. The second companion volume, 1668 pages, is a book in itself and could have somehow an independent reading. Texts by specialists and writers who comment one by one the chapters of the novel are gathered there; some of these “commentators” are Javier Cercas, Roger Chartier, Alberto Manguel, Javier Marias, Claudio Guillen and Martin de Riquer.
On the establishment of the text of Cervantes, Francisco Rico told EFE that ” most important “of an edition of this kind” is the text “, and where there are now published corrections and new interpretations of certain chapters. “They have restored hundred passages that are closer to Cervantes than they were in all previous editions”. This involved changing some words contained in previous editions; for example, where before saying “parties”, has now written “siestas” and “saw” has been replaced by “rain”.
The director of the Cervantes Institute, Victor Garcia de la Concha, said orality that beats in the Don Quixote , a book “which is further said that writing” and that, therefore, “is a great work to teach Spanish.” Proof of this is that teachers have the Cervantes worldwide use it to their Spanish classes.
Rich also said that “the Don Quixote is the only book of the West has been bestseller every day of his life. Neither Calderon or Shakespeare or Dante got something. “
Meanwhile, the director of the SAR recalled that makes few years, the Swedish association of writers polled hundred writers from around the world to determine what the most important novel in the history of literature. The next most popular was the Don Quixote . .
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