Sunday, May 1, 2011

Don Quixote

 "En algun lugar de la mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme" 

 is the most famous intro of a book at the spanish literature,the recommendation of today is  "Don Quixote"

       (according to wikipedia)      Don Quixote , fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

have a good read

greetings

18 comments:

  1. yeah books are okay i guess.

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  2. I read this in my Spanish class! It was a great read!

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  3. I always heard of the story, but never read it... I should...

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  4. Never heard of it, I'm intrigued!

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  5. Nunca leí don quijote, preferí escuchar los audio libros, por supuesto esta no fué la excepción!

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  6. Classic read, highly recommended to anyone!

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  7. gonna have to look it up, thanks

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  8. this books gives me a bad taste. was forced to read it in Spanish class :'(

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  9. Always nice to hear from Don QX

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  10. never heard of it sounds interesting

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  11. I've read chapters of this book before. Have to love books about lunatics. If you are lazy, at least see the movie.

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  12. Interesting, have to check it out

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  13. Might watch the movie first :P

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  14. Im not huge on books but some are really good :) most books i read now are those that i have to...

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  15. this is classical world literature and good one too! however you could change your blog to english language when adressing international people...

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  16. @mindph done :) thanks for your comments and sugestions

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  17. I've heard of this... I think Captain Beefheart was influenced by him. :D

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