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Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:13:43 2018 No.11940350 [Reply] [Original]

Why is it so fucking long? Is it really worth it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:14:41 2018 No.11940355 read it and find out

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:15:41 2018 No.11940359 >>11940350 Yes. You can skip around some and still get the idea.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:17:51 2018 No.11940365 uhhh haven't you read Mortimer Adler's "How to read"? you aren't supposed to read the whole thing, dummy. read a little of the introduction, read a little in the midway, then read the last chapters, there's no need to read all the words lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 00:39:22 2018 No.11940428 Because it's actually two books. Part 2 was written in response to other authors writing fanfiction.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 10:41:04 2018 No.11941883 >>11940350 I just checked it's like 1000+ in my Spanish edition. I wonder what happens in this

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 10:41:48 2018 No.11941885 >>11941883 No one knows

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:19:05 2018 No.11942019 >>11940350 >Why is it so fucking long? It's a big book with lotsa little books in it, 'cause that's how they used to do things in those days. >Is it really worth it? Oh yeah, it's a hoot and a half.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:22:26 2018 No.11942035 >>11940350 its actually not, i was so bored. its just the same thing over and over.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:23:10 2018 No.11942038 >>11942035 >t. high-schooler

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:24:16 2018 No.11942044 >>11940350 If you read it, you’ll wish it was longer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:37:30 2018 No.11942082 >>11942038 >don quixote and sancho go somewhere >don quixote mistakes ordinary thing for chivalric thing >don quixote gets into trouble >next chapter it was funny and all and its not like that all the way through but its still repetitive

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:45:51 2018 No.11942109 >>11940350 My version has notes in literally every page.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:47:22 2018 No.11942116 >>11942109 And on that note, which translation/version does /lit/ recommend? I only have a Kindle version from way back that I never bothered with.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:48:48 2018 No.11942124 >>11942082 >He did not reed part 2 Fuck of underage

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 12:19:57 2018 No.11942233 >>11942082 Little anglo brain

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 12:30:07 2018 No.11942261 >>11941883 Dozens of adventures where Don Quijote sees something and perceives it incorrectly while Sancho sees this and either tries to correct DQ or just goes along with it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 12:51:22 2018 No.11942336 I read the whole thing and I thought it was worth it; if not for entertainment then just to say you're one of the few who've read the whole thing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 13:02:06 2018 No.11942366 >>11942261 >>11941883 Third person chimin' in, Sancho also frequently gets injured because of DQ's shenanigans but sticks with him because of greed, for DQ promises wealth in the shape of land and cattle. Or whatever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 13:25:40 2018 No.11942443 >>11940350 >Why is it so fucking long? They didn't have TV. >Is it really worth it? Only if you're not an NPC. Cervantes wrote some of the most insightful and hilarious critiques of NPC culture of all time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 13:45:08 2018 No.11942510 >>11942082 t. Read the first 100 pages

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 15:11:15 2018 No.11942922 >>11942510 not part II as well?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 18:45:27 2018 No.11944108 >>11942261 You just described a basic weekly sitcom. Actually that'd make for a pretty fun sitcom.

Anonymous Tue Oct 16 18:49:03 2018 No.11944136

>>11942366
By book 2, Sancho is in it for the adventure.

>>11940428 Ah ,yes "El Quijote de Avellaneda".
Cervantes was so pissed at people actually thinking that was the official sequel, he decided to write the damn thing just to stop the bastard.

Nowaday's he'd just sue him.

A glorious example of how copyright law has screwed things up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 18:52:54 2018 No.11944159 File: 40 KB, 550x800, 13081126.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11942109 Catedra editions have more annotations than original text sometimes. Their only customers are high-schoolers.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 18:53:21 2018 No.11944161 >>11940365 vastly underrated

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 18:57:02 2018 No.11944181 File: 121 KB, 1000x1639, lazarillo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11940350 (OP) If you want something shorter. Try El lazarillo.It's both shorter and funnier. Five centuries old, and the comedy in it is still gold.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 19:00:14 2018 No.11944197 Read twice. Nothing to add.

Anonymous Tue Oct 16 19:07:30 2018 No.11944231

>>11944197
(Cont)

May I add, a sentence which summons it all (and it's my own translation, so please forgive my clumsiness)

"...as there's such a madness, as to being so unmad, just trying to figure this World as it is, and not as it should shall may be"

...and now, take this Path. If your soul allows you.

Anonymous Tue Oct 16 20:02:29 2018 No.11944511
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>>11940350
>>11944181
Slice of life sitcom with a very long episode list vs short movie. Good comedy on both sides, the only downside is getting used to outdated language on the first pages + translations.
Also, is pic related the raunchy prequel?

Anonymous Tue Oct 16 20:21:43 2018 No.11944580
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>>11944159
I have this hard cover edition by Alfagura. I've never owned a Catedra book, but their editions feel very snuggly in my hands, just the right size.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:03:25 2018 No.11944782 >>11940350 No, it's not worth it, don't read it. Don't read anything at all.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:08:20 2018 No.11944809 >>11940350 not if you read a translation

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:08:38 2018 No.11944813 >>11944511 That book along with el auto de los reyes magos and el Cid is the prequel to all Castilian literature

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:10:35 2018 No.11944822 >>11944580 I have that one too and also the 2015 edition they printed to commemorate parte II. I wish someone would touch me

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:28:03 2018 No.11944907 >>11944822 >I wish someone would touch me lol what

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:33:09 2018 No.11944933 >>11944181 >that chapter only a couple paragraphs long >is about breaking shoes

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:51:35 2018 No.11945025 >>11940365 Ebin

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:54:24 2018 No.11945037 >>11942443 Memologic interpretations are just as false as false flag “why didn’t authors in the past have 21st century feminist morals” readings

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 00:50:32 2018 No.11945828 File: 290 KB, 1280x1080, 1509997889181.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11942082 >he didn't read the speeches >he didn't read the section where sancho becomes a governor >he didn't read the interpolated novels >he didn't read the ending

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 06:16:29 2018 No.11946680 >>11940365 nigga its 2018. just read the summary on cliffnotes

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 06:51:55 2018 No.11946780 >>11940350 i think is always worth to read classics if you want to. Classics can help you to have a bigger view of literature in general. You can read the classics for a bunch of reasons, or just don't read it. it's a important book

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 09:34:51 2018 No.11947197 Really depends on whether you enjoy reading picaresque novels/books i.e. stories with an episodic narrative and a somewhat overarching story.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 10:41:00 2018 No.11947427 >>11940365 That’s not what Adler wrote

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 12:24:16 2018 No.11947836 >>11947427 Who cares. I read a little of the introduction, a little in the midway, and the last chapters of that piece of shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 16:23:19 2018 No.11948928 >>11944580 >>but their editions feel very snuggly in my hands, just the right size. Cátedra is one of the few publishers for which pocket sized really means pocket sized. I've put them in coat pockets without problems.

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