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Don Quixote Part 1
Introduction
It is often said that we have no satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote.” To those who are
familiar with the original, it savours of truism or platitude to say so, for in truth there can be no
thoroughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not
that the Spanish idioms are so utterly unmanageable, or that the untranslatable words, numerous
enough no doubt, are so superabundant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the
humour of the book owes its yavour is peculiar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly
imitated in any other tongue.