{"id":599,"date":"2011-06-15T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=599"},"modified":"2012-05-19T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:16:16","slug":"cervantes-journey-to-parnassus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/06\/15\/cervantes-journey-to-parnassus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cervantes, Journey to Parnassus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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04 Feb 2009 Cervantes, Journey to Parnassus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author of\u00a0Don Quixote<\/em>, Cervantes wrote\u00a0Journey to Parnassus<\/em> in 1614, about four years before he died. I\u2019ve wanted to read this book for the last year or more. I had searched antiquarian bookstores online but discovered the only translation of it was in 1883, and they wanted, if memory serves, about $200 for it. Beyond what I could afford. But I kept thinking about it and searching for it once in a while. To my surprise, about a month ago, I stumbled on it on Google Books. They had scanned it in from the graduate library at the University of Michigan, where I was a student, long, long ago. What a thrill finding it. I\u2019ve had to process the copy a little to get it to load on the 4×6 inch screen of my Sony Reader, but better than my laptop. And worth the effort. It allowed me really to be drawn much deeper into his imaginative world\u2026<\/p>\n

Cervantes uses the journey motif in a fascinating, humorous way to survey and lambast or applaud Spanish poets of his day and earlier. Somewhat similar to Czeslaw Milosz\u2019s\u00a0A Treatise on Poetry <\/em>and other such works. Ultimately, though, it\u2019s a self-serving work, as the genre is, and therefore of a lesser order.\u00a0Nevertheless, it\u2019s a fine work that ought to be better known in the English reading world.<\/p>\n

The text is bilingual, allowing me to dip into the Spanish a little, which I enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n

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