Edith Grossman Quotes

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My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented.

Edith Grossman
But there was more: hovering over me were dark sui generis clouds of intense trepidation, vast areas of apprehension and disquiet peculiar to this project.

Edith Grossman
In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.

Edith Grossman
I wanted English-language readers to savor its humor, its melancholy, its originality, its intellectual and esthetic complexity; I wanted them to know why the entire world thinks this is a great masterwork by an incomparable novelist.

Edith Grossman
There is something more to 'a fine piece of writing' than the words that constitute it, something more lurking behind its "mere surface".

Edith Grossman
Would I be able to catch at least a glimpse of Cervantes's mind as I listened to his prose and began to live with his characters, and would I be able to keep that image intact as I searched for equivalent voices in English?

Edith Grossman
Would I be able to transfer my contemporary experience as a translator to the past and feel some measure of ease as I brought the Spanish of the seventeenth century over into the English of the twenty-first?

Edith Grossman