For me, it's the penguin classics
>>24823865Freud learned spanish just to read Don Quixote. Why don't you?
>>24823888Is there a penguins classic edition of Freud?
>>24823865I also love a good Penguin, and I own quite a few of the full size contemporary Penguins, most bought new. Although I much, much, prefer the form factor of the old Penguin Classics, of which I own many. Yesterday my 1974 Penguin Classics copy of TBK (Magarshack) arrived. I adore it. I also do own quite a few of the Penguin Modern Classics (light blue) though only the contemporary form, not the vintage.
>>24823888Freud had near infinite access to cocaine. I could learn three languages a week on enough coke.
>Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr.I'm thinking they're based.
Spanish literature was human-centered. And that was the difference between it an the rest.While English, Arab, German, and French writers rambled about ghosts, talking animals, fables, honor, and other metaphysical themes, Spanish literature — especially Castilian literature from authors such as Cervantes, Quevedo, Lope de Vega, and Gracián — revolved around themes focused on the problems of everyday human life.Deception driven by the need for social ascent, picaresque adventures, sexual infidelity, the hypocrisy of the clergy and nobility who deceived themselves by believing they were virtuous, the foolish idealization of women typical of medieval French, Arabic, and Byzantine literature — Cervantes and Quevedo, in particular, tended to portray women as beings who were sometimes vile and greedy for money and male attention, instead of pure princesses as in Arab and French works, and so on.That is why Spanish literature represented the pinnacle of human literature.It removed gods, angels, demons, animals, monsters, and abstract ideals from literature, and anthropologized it within a materialism that reflected reality itself.
>>24823888He merely adopted Spanish, I was born in it.
