Books by Miguel de Cervantes
“The story of Cervantes is as insane as the story of Don Quixote. Again, it’s super-reductive to say that the book mirrors the life of the author. But the fact is that Cervantes was a soldier in the tercios in Flanders. He was captured by Barbary pirates and a galley slave for five years. Cervantes’s life was absolutely extraordinary and quite representative, I think, of the madness that was Spain at the beginning of the 17th century.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Miguel de Cervantes were recommended
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes -
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Berta Isla
by Javier Marías & Margaret Jull Costa (translator) -
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Homeland (Patria)
by Fernando Aramburu and Alfred MacAdam (translator) -
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The Frozen Heart (El corazón helado)
by Almudena Grandes -
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An Olympic Death (Sabotaje olímpico)
by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Ed Emery (translator)
The Best Novels by Spanish Authors, recommended by Richard Village
The Best Novels by Spanish Authors, recommended by Richard Village
If you like your novels long, Spanish literature has some gems to lose yourself in. Richard Village, translator and publisher of Spanish Beauty, recommends five of his favourites, from the chaos of 17th-century Spain to the traumas of the 20th century, and also including a classic detective novel.
The best books on Translation, recommended by Edith Grossman
The award-winning literary translator Edith Grossman discusses books on and of translation that inspired her, and considers the trade-off that every translator faces, between fidelity and meaning
