Don Chisciotte

Hace más de un cuarto de siglo que Ediciones Cátedra publicó por primera vez una edición del " Quijote " en la colección Letras Hispánicas, a cargo del profesor John Jay Allen. En 1986, el profesor Allen modificó en parte la introducción a la luz de algunos estudios que habían ido apareciendo después de la primera edición. Posteriormente el texto también fue revisado teniendo en cuenta las nuevas lecturas y enmiendas que la crítica erudita y los investigadores han ido incorporando durante los últimos años. Coincidiendo con el cuarto centenario de la publicación del " Quijote " , Ediciones Cátedra, y una vez más al cuidado del profesor Allen, ofrece una edición renovada y puesta al día de la obra maestra de Cervantes.

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled "the first modern novel" and many authors consider it to be the best literary work ever written.The plot revolves around the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical monologues on knighthood, already considered old-fashioned at the time. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story.The book had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), as well as the word quixotic and the epithet Lothario; the latter refers to a character in "El curioso impertinente" ("The Impertinently Curious Man"), an intercalated story that appears in Part One, chapters 33-35. The 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written.When first published, Don Quixote was usually interpreted as a comic novel. After the French Revolution, it was better known for its central ethic that individuals can be right while society is quite wrong and seen as disenchanting. In the 19th century, it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily tell "whose side Cervantes was on". Many critics came to view the work as a tragedy in which Don Quixote's idealism and nobility are viewed by the post-chivalric world as insane, and are defeated and rendered useless by common reality. By the 20th century, the novel had come to occupy a canonical space as one of the foundations of modern literature.

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Il ¿Don Chisciotte della Manciä è l¿opera più nota di Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, nonché uno dei capolavori della letteratura mondiale; vede al suo centro una delle coppie più proverbiali della nostra cultura: l¿impavido e sognante idalgo don Chisciotte, e il suo fido scudiero Sancio Panza. Una coppia sgangherata e in cerca di assurde e comiche avventure, in cui il sogno utopico del ¿cavaliere¿ s¿accompagna alla più cruda realtà dello scudiero: il romanzo racconta, difatti, il tramonto d¿un epoca - il secolo d¿oro - imbastita di vecchi e ingialliti ideali, nonché l¿inadeguatezza della nobiltà nel far fronte al nuovo che sorge tra le ceneri d¿un tempo andato. Col capolavoro di Cervantes (pubblicato in due tempi, nel 1605 e nel 1615), si dà effettivo inizio a una nuova letteratura, in cui trova presa e vigore lo humour. Eppure una presa di coscienza finale che, seppur mediante la leggerezza e il riso di avventure e obiettivi spropositati, passa dall¿idalgo al lettore: il divario tra immaginazione e realtà dei fatti, tra il sogno d¿un uomo e la sua difficile realizzazione. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.