In this way, the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) also endorsed the masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the Cervantes Institute, in 1998.
This edition, presented this June 23 at the headquarters of the SAR, it has been led by the philologist and scholar Francisco Rico, major world expert in the ‘Quixote’, and is the jewel in the crown of Classical Academy Library that in 111 volumes brings together the best titles in Spanish and sponsored by the Caixa Social Work.
The SAR joins the celebration of the fourth centenary of the second part of ‘Don Quixote’ and with this edition also fulfills the request that the Spanish Government made him, in the first decades of the twentieth century, he published a popular edition of ‘Don Quixote’ and another scholar, said the director of the Academy, Dario Villanueva.
The ‘Quixote’ was conducted by the popular novelist Arturo Perez-Reverte and was released in 2014, and the scholarly edition is now publishing Espasa and Ballantine Books.
“With a ‘little’ late have met that old parcel,” Villanueva told numerous guests.
The first volume, 1,644 pages containing the Cervantes text, set “with the most rigorous techniques” of modern philology, plus a series of introductions, said the secretary of the Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado.
In the companion volume, 1,668-page renowned experts and writers discuss one by one the chapters of the novel, and these include Javier Cercas, Roger Chartier, Alberto Manguel, Javier Marias, Claudio Guillen and Martin de Riquer.
As Francisco Rico said before the presentation of ‘Don Quixote’, this issue “is not radically new, but is rigorously set up.”
“The most important” of an edition of this kind “is the text”, and which is now published no corrections and new interpretations of certain chapters.
“have been restored hundred passages that are closer to Cervantes than they were in all previous editions, “said Rico.
And they have changed some words that appeared in previous editions. For example, where previously placed “parties”, has now written “siestas” and “saw” is replaced by “rain”.
There faults thanks to philology , they have been corrected. When in the ‘Quixote’ spoke of “sardines Lercha” you did not know what he meant, because “Lercha” does not exist in Castilian. Meant “perch”.
“At that time everything was put on hangers with hooks,” says Rico. This philologist and academic attributes the success of this novel “the overwhelming human sympathy that awaken the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho, which are natural, convincing”.
“The ‘Don Quixote’ is the only book of the West that has been best seller every day of his life. Neither Calderon or Shakespeare or Dante got something, “said Francisco Rico.
New this edition is the inclusion of judgment that gave the civil censorship on the ‘Quixote’ when it was published for the first time.
He was lost in the press and was not disclosed at the time, “as it was required to do.”
This document censorship appeared in the National Historical Archives and incorporated now. The censor the seventeenth century saw the book as “entertainment for the common people,” Rico said.
When it published the ‘Quixote’, “almost nobody” realized the importance of this work. “Cervantes was a man of another era and was not one to cultivate the ornate style that was fashionable then, with many allusions,” said Rico.
The director of the Cervantes Institute, Victor Garcia de la Concha, said orality that beats in the ‘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 for their Spanish classes. Any edition of ‘Don Quixote’ said Francisco Rico, “is good to appreciate the greatness” of this work.
For one thing, said Villanueva, Cervantes is “an authentic literary monument” and not just for Spanish speakers.
The head of the SAR recalled that a few years ago, the association of writers of Sweden polled hundred writers from around the world to determine It was the most important novel in the history of literature. And the most votes was the “Don Quixote”.
Madrid
EFE
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