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Don Quixote

Penguin Classics

Audiobook
0 of 1 copy available
Wait time: About 4 weeks
0 of 1 copy available
Wait time: About 4 weeks

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Kayvan Novak, Josh Cohen, Alistair Petrie, and Richard Hughes.
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      This heavily abridged recording focuses on our romantic hero's most salient adventures, realistically omitting the vast dialectic mass of the novel. The listener begins to get a feel for Cervantes' novelistic brilliance, but misses the full effect of his mordant satire of contemporary social and literary pretensions. De Souza's reading from the late seventeenth-century translation is natural and confident; his pacing is perfect. He deftly executes Cervantes' characterizations, infusing the characters with the requisite humor or grave solemnity. Exquisite reprises of music from the Spanish Renaissance lighten the density of the prose and heighten the historical ambiance, further enriching this first-rate performance. B.M.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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