Don Quijote de La Mancha (Real Academia Espanola)

En 2004 y coincidiendo con la celebracion del IV Centenario de la publicacion de la primera parte del Quijote, la Real Academia Espanola y la Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Espanola dieron inicio a un proyecto de edicion de grandes obras de la literatura en espanol. Concebida como una line [...]
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En 2004 y coincidiendo con la celebracion del IV Centenario de la publicacion de la primera parte del Quijote, la Real Academia Espanola y la Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Espanola dieron inicio a un proyecto de edicion de grandes obras de la literatura en espanol. Concebida como una linea de ediciones conmemorativas ocasionales y de circulacion limitada de los grandes clasicos hispanicos de todos los tiempos, dichas obras son publicadas y distribuidas en todo el mundo de habla hispana por Penguin Randon House Grupo Editorial bajo su sello Alfaguara.
La edicion popular del Quijote abrio la coleccion. Fue presentada oficialmente en el marco del III Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Espanola celebrado en Valladolid y gracias a los actos de presentacion promovidos por las distintas Academias se convirtio en el eje de las conmemoraciones academicas del centenario. De esta edicion del Quijote se vendieron 3.000.000 de ejemplares en todo el mundo hispanohablante y se convirtio en la edicion canonica de este clasico de la literatura espanola, reconocida como tal tanto por la critica como por el publico.
Los anos 2015 y 2016 conforman un bienio de aniversarios cervantinos. A la celebracion del IV Centenario de la segunda parte del Quijote (2015), le sigue, en 2016, la conmemoracion del IV Centenario de la muerte de su autor, Miguel de Cervantes. Como ocurrio hace mas de una decada, las Academias de la Lengua Espanola y la editorial Alfaguara se unen a esta celebracion con la reedicion de este clasico universal, que lleva siete anos fuera de las librerias.
La edicion reproduce el texto critico y las notas de Francisco Rico, a su vez coordinador del volumen, y se completa con estudios de escritores y filologos de la talla de Mario Vargas Llosa, Francisco Ayala, Martin de Riquer, Jose Manuel Blecua, Guillermo Rojo, Jose Antonio Pascual, Margit Frenk y Claudio Guillen. Como novedad, la edicion 2015 cuenta con un prologo de Dario Villanueva, director de la Real Academia Espanola, escrito especialmente para la ocasion.
English Description
Ten years ago, the Academies of the Spanish Language conceived of a Don Quixote for everyone. Now, it is being re-releasedin a limited editionto commemorate the 400th anniversary of Cervantes s death.
2015 and 2016 bring with them two special Cervantes anniversaries. The celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the Publication of the Second Part of Don Quixote in 2015 will be followed in 2016 by the Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes s Death. As they did more than a decade ago, the Academies of the Spanish Language and Alfaguara unite for this celebration with a re-edition of the universal classic directed at the whole Spanish-speaking world.
This edition boasts a new prologue written specially for the occasion by Dario Villanueva, the director of the Real Academia de la Lengua Espanola (RAE) (RAE) and president of the Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Espanola (ASALE). It is complemented by a glossary made up of seven thousand words, expressions, phrases and proverbs, each explained according to its precise meaning in Cervantes s text.
The first edition of this Quixote became a huge sales success, unprecedented for a classic work. More than three million copies, distributed in Spain and the Americas, made it the most widespread in history. The contextualizing notes about the work, prepared by Francisco Rico, contribute to its educational character and its orientation toward a diverse and non-specialized public. It also includes a series of complementary studies, written by some of the primary experts in Cervantes s consummate book.
As such, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the modernity of Don Quixote in " A Novel for the 21st Century; " Francisco Ayala reflects upon the construction of the novel s characters in " The Invention of the Quixote; " and Martin de Riquer analyzes the work in the biographical context of the author in " Cervantes and Quixote. "
For their part, Jose Manuel Blecua (" Don Quixote in the History of the Spanish Language "), Guillermo Rojo (" Cervantes as a Linguistic Model "), Jose Antonio Pascual (" The Linguistic Registers of Don Quixote: The Ironic Distance from Reality "), Margit Frenk (" Orality, Writing, Reading "), and Claudio Guillen (" The Course of Cervantes s novel: Perspectives and Dialogues ") deal with different aspects related to the Spanish language in Cervantes s work.
Joining all this is the current director of the Real Academia de la Lengua Espanola (RAE), Dario Villanueva, who wants to " take advantage of the golden opportunity that the release of this new edition offers ] to give an explanationmy explanationof some of the reasons for the high recognition that Don Quixote has gained from the date of its publication until today, as well as its clear modernity, " before reminding us that Don Quixote was the work chosen in 2002 as the best novel of all time, even ahead of "In Search of Lost Time "by Proust and "War and Peace" by Tolstoy, in a survey conducted by the Swiss Writers Association of 100 authors from around the world.
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