Translated by P. A. Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by
Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork Cervantes' tale of the
deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and
battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams,
Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated generations of readers, and
inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert, Picasso and
Richard Strauss. The tall, thin knight and his short, fat squire,
Sancho Panza, have found their way into films, cartoons and even
computer games. Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular
escapist fiction of the day, the 'books of chivalry', this
precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a
sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature.
On his 'heroic' journey Don Quixote meets characters of every class
and condition, from the prostitute Maritornes, who is commended for
her Christian charity, to the Knight of the Green Coat, who seems
to embody some of the constraints of virtue. Cervantes' greatest
work can be enjoyed on many levels, all suffused with a subtle
irony that reaches out to encompass the reader, and does not leave
the author outside its circle. Peter Motteux's fine
eighteenth-century translation, acknowledged as one of the best,
brilliantly succeeds in communicating the spirit of the original
Spanish.
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