Don Quijote: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism » (1st Edition)

Diana de Armas Wilson is Professor of English and Renaissnace Studies at the University of Denver. She is the author of Allegories of Love: Cervantes’s Persiles and Sigismunda; co-editor of Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes; and author of Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World.

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Emeritus. He is the translator of many works, including Gargantua and Pantagruel (awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize), Père Goriot, Beowulf, and the five romances of Chrétien de Troyes.

The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator Burton Raffel’s masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent,
fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish.