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Don Quixote

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The Reception Of Don Quixote In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Germany And Friedrich J. Bertuch’S Pioneering Translation (1775-77) Of It, Candace Mary Beutell Gardner Aug 2015

The Reception Of Don Quixote In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Germany And Friedrich J. Bertuch’S Pioneering Translation (1775-77) Of It, Candace Mary Beutell Gardner

The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal

Candace Beutell Gardner

ABSTRACT

THE RECEPTION OF DON QUIXOTE IN 17TH- AND 18TH- CENTURY GERMANY AND ITS PIONEERING TRANSLATION (1775-77) BY FRIEDRICH J. BERTUCH

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra published the first part of his inventive novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, in 1605. Literally overnight, he went from a struggling writer, whose promising abilities and early renown had dimmed in the light cast by the major stars of Spain’s Siglo de Oro, to the most popular author in Spain. Perceived at first as a delightfully whimsical novel about the exotic adventures of an eccentric knight and his rustic squire, …