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Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is a literary masterpiece. This Norton Critical Edition of Don Quijote is based on Burton Raffel's masterful translation. The Raffel translation comes as close as possible to recreating Cervantes's inimitable prose style--the translation is consistent, fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish. Diana de Armas Wilson provides a thought-provoking introduction and explanatory textual annotations.

Carefully selected contextual materials bring readers into the creative process that culminated in Don Quijote. Included are other writings by Cervantes published during the period from 1585 to 1616 as well as contemporary works by Ariosto, Avellaneda, Sannazaro, and Montalvo. Patricia Finch and John J. Allen provide a modern account of the novel's influence through the ages.

Fifteen critical pieces present major interpretations of both the novel and selected episodes. Included are contributions by Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Michel Foucault, Javier Herrero, Ruth E1 Saffar, Carroll B. Johnson, Robert ter Horst, Nicolas Wey-G6mez, Maria Antonia Garcds, and Anne J. Cruz, among others.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Editor's Introduction

Translator's Note

The Text of Don Quijote

 MAP: Spain at the End of the Sixteenth Century

 MAP: Cervantes' Andalusia

 Don Quijote

Backgrounds and Contexts

 CERVANTES IN HIS OWN VOICE

[Fear of Publishing] (from Prologue to La Galatea)

[Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man] (Prologue to Exemplary Novels)

[Cervantes's Self-Critique] (from Voyage of Parnassus)

[Cervantes's Last Words] (from Prologue to Persiles and Sigismunda)

 SOURCES AND INFLUENCES

Jacopo Sannazaro · From Arcadia (Chapter One)

Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo · From Amadis of Gaul (The Penance on Poor Cliff)

Ludovico Ariosto · From Orlando Furioso (Canto 23)

Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda · Prologue to the "False Quijote"

Patricia Finch and John J. Allen · Don Quijote across the Centuries

Criticism

 GENERAL ESSAYS ON DON QUIJOTE

Carlos Fuentes · Foreword

Harold Bloom · Cervantes: The Play of the World

Javier Herrero · Who Was Dulcinea?

Anthony J. Cascardi · Personal Identity in Don Quixote

Michel Foucault · [Don Quixote as Hero of the Same]

 ESSAYS ON SELECTED EPISODES OF DON QUIJOTE

Elias L. Rivers · [Cervantes's Revolutionary Prologue]

Ruth Anthony E1 Saffar · In Marcela's Case

Robert ter Horst · Sex and the Chain Gang

Edward Dudley · [Rescuing Dorotea]

Nicolas Wey-Gomez · Anselmo's Eating Disorder

Maria Antonia Garces · [Cervantes's Veiled Woman]

Henry W. Sullivan · [The Duke's Theatre of Sadism]

Carroll B. Johnson · [Dreaming in the Cave of Montesinos]

 Anne J. Cruz · Don Quijote's Disappearing Act

 FICCIONES ON DON QUI]OTE

Jorge Luis Borges · Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography