Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Eduardo Alonso

Martín de Riquer

Esta edición de la inmortal obra de Cervantes es una adaptación del escritor Eduardo Alonso quien, para hacer más accesible esta famosa obra a los lectores más jóvenes, decidió reducir el original sólo a una tercera, pero sí manteniendo la mayor parte del lenguaje original. El autor escribió esta obra con el fin de parodiar los libros de caballería porque encontraba que eran una sarta de disparates desprovistos de todo interés. Por eso ideó la historia de un hidalgo aldeano quien, con su fiel Sancho Panza, participa en una serie de delirantes aventuras que provocan la hilaridad del lector. En esta obra maestra, el autor nos revela la importancia de los ideales como el valor de la libertad y la justicia. Nos advierte que no siempre es fácil distinguir la realidad de la apariencia.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

Nyibango Costa

These thoughts made him waver in his purpose, but, his madness being stronger than any other faculty, he resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met…

ayoni

Heaven has made me, so you say, beautiful, and so much so that in spite of yourselves my beauty leads you to love me; and for the love you show me you say, and even urge, that I am bound to love you. By that natural understanding which God has given me I know that everything beautiful attracts love, but I cannot see how, by reason of being loved, that which is loved for its beauty is bound to love that which loves it; besides, it may happen that the lover of that which is beautiful may be ugly, and ugliness being detestable, it is very absurd to say, I love thee because thou art beautiful, thou must love me though I be ugly." But supposing the beauty cqual on both sides, it does not follow that the inclinations must be therefore alike, for it is not every beauty that excites love, some but pleasing the eye without winning the affection; and if every sort of beauty excited love and won the heart, the will would wander vaguely to and fro unable to make choice of any; for as there is an infinity of beautiful objects there must be an infinity of inclinations, and true love, I have heard it said, is indivisible, and must be voluntary and not compelled. 

as I believe it to be, why do you desire me to bend my will by force, for no other reason but that you say you love me? Nay-tell me-had Heaven made me ugly, as it has made me beautiful, could I with justice complain of you for not loving me? Moreover, you must remember that the beauty I possess was no choice of mine, for, be it what it may, Heaven of its bounty gave it me without my asking or choosing it; and as the viper, though it kills with it, does not deserve to be blamed for the poison it carries, as it is a gift of nature, neither do I deserve reproach for being beautiful; for beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance or a sharp sword; the one does not burn, the other does not cut, those who do not come too near. 

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