Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – Gece Kitaplığı

The Divine Comedy describes Dante`s journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the Roman poet Virgil and then by Beatrice, the subject of his love and of another of his works, La Vita Nuova. While the vision of Hell, the Inferno, is vivid for modern readers, the theological niceties presented in the other books require a certain amount of patience and knowledge to appreciate. Purgatorio, the most lyrical and human of the three, also has the most poets in it; Paradiso, the most heavily theological, has the most beautiful and ecstatic mystic passages in which Dante tries to describe what he confesses he is unable to convey (e.g., when Dante looks into the face of God: "all`alta fantasia qui manco possa"-"at this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe," Paradiso, XXXIII, 142).This Book is Illustrated and Complete version of the "Don Quixote" by Cervantes. About This Translation: "It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that of a new edition of Shelton`s "Don Quixote," which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some-and I confess myself to be one-for whom Shelton`s racy old version, with all its defects, has a charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess.Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Cervantes; "Don Quixote" had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he mayhave carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford on one of his last journeys, and under the mulberry tree at New Place joined hands with a kindred genius in its pages.To speak of "Don Quixote" as if it were merely a humorous book ...