1605. Still hasn't been surpassed.
Read it in the original Old Castillian.
>>25353095No. I'll read it with Don Quixote's dialogue in Middle English, while everything else is Elizabethan English.
>>25353095If you didn't read Pierre Menard's version, you didn't finish the book.
>>25353314You never read Pierre Menard's version. You read Pierre Menard's version as told by the crypto-jew Jorge Luis Borges
what do you guys think are the books that compare to Don Quixote, not only as classics, but as the highest peaks of literature. It doesn't have to be a long list or even books that you like, simply books that are the peak.I would say:>Les Misérables>Thus Spoke Zarathustra>Divine Comedy>Odyssey
>>25353427Borges is a crypto-jew? Phew, I thought he was just a disgusting arg*ntinian. I'll read him now
>>25353198is there actually a translation like this but with elizabethan and victorian?
>>25353440War and Peace for me.
>>25353440Those are all good. I really like Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible. I haven't read them so I can't comment, but Dostoevsky and Tolstoy I often hear have produced the finest novels.
>>25353796Ormsby and Shelton, I think.
