![]() ![]() I picked up my pen many times to write it, and many times I put it down again because I did not know what to write and once, when I was baffled, with the paper in front of me, my pen behind my ear, my elbow propped on the writing table and my cheek resting in my hand, pondering what I would say, a friend of mine…came in, and seeing me so perplexed he asked the reason, and I…said I was thinking about the prologue I had to write for the history of Don Quixote…Ĭervantes’s fictional difficulty was certainly my factual one as I contemplated the prospect of writing even a few lines about the wonderfully utopian task of translating the first-and probably the greatest-modern novel. For I can tell you that although it cost me some effort to compose, none seemed greater than creating the preface you are now reading. I wanted only to offer it to you plain and bare, unadorned by a prologue or the endless catalogue of sonnets, epigrams, and laudatory poems that are usually placed at the beginning of books. ![]() ![]() About author, translators, and illustratorsĪpendix I - Discover Don Quixote by Eric GrafĪppendix II - Index and concordances to Ormsby edition ![]()
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