'John Rutherford makes Don Quixote funny and readable. One of the most famous figures in Spanish literature, Miguel De Cervantes was a poet, playwright, novelist and the creator of Don Quixote from Don Quixote. His introduction discusses the traditional works parodied in Don Quixote and issues of literary translation. Famously modest, he avoided the limelight whenever possible and, following the death of his wife, lived an isolated life until his death in 2010. John Rutherford's landmark translation of Don Quixote won the 2002 Premio Valle Inclan prize for translation. The highest point in his career came in the 1960s when he published Viejas historias de Castilla la Vieja (1964) (Old tales of Old Castile), and the autobiographical Las Ratas (1962) (The Rats). Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with.
At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety.
As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray, tilting at windmills, fighting with friars, and distorting the rural Spanish landscape into a fantasy of impenetrable fortresses and wicked sorcerers. The prize-winning translation of Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterworkĭon 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.
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