Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is a literary masterpiece. This Norton Critical Edition of Don Quijote is based on Burton Raffel's masterful translation. The Raffel translation comes as close as possible to recreating Cervantes's inimitable prose style-the translation is consistent, fluid, and modeled closely on the original Spanish. Diana de Armas Wilson provides a thought-provoking introduction and explanatory textual annotations.
Carefully selected contextual materials bring readers into the creative process that culminated in Don Quijote. Jncluded are other writings by Cervantes published during the period from 1585 to 1616 as well as contemporary works by Ariosto, Avellaneda, Sannazaro, and Montalvo. Patricia Finch and John J. Allen provide a modern account of the novel's influence throughout the ages.
Fifteen critical pieces present major interpretations of both the novel and selected episodes. Included are contributions by Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Michel Foucault, Javier Herrero, Ruth El Saffar, Carroll B. Johnson, Robert ter Horst, Nicolas Wey-G6mez, Maria Antonia Carces, and Anne J. Cruz, among others.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Editor's Introduction
Translator's Note
The Text of Don Quijote
MAP: Spain at the End of the Sixteenth Century
MAP: Cervantes' Andalusia
Don Quijote
Backgrounds and Contexts
ERVANTES IN HIS OWN VOICE
[Fear of Publishing] (from Prologue to La Galatea)
[Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man] (Prologue to Exemplary Novels)
[Cervantes's Self-Critique] (from Voyage of Parnassus)
[Cervantes's Last Words] (from Prologue to Persiles and Sigismunda)
SOURCES AND INFLUENCES
Jacopo Sannazaro·From Arcadia (Chapter One)
Garci Rodrfguez de Montalvo·From Amadis of Gaul (The Penance on Poor Cliff)
Ludovico Ariosto·From Orlando Furioso (Canto 23)
Alonso Fermandez de Avellaneda·Prologue to the "False Quijote"
Patricia Finch and John J. Allen·Don Quijote across the Centuries
Criticism
GENERAL ESSAYS ON DON QUIJOTE
Carlos Fuentes·Foreword
Harold Bloom·Cervantes: The Play of the World
Javier Herrero·Who Was Dulcinea?
Anthony J. Cascardi·Personal Identity in Don Quixote
Michel Foucault·[Don Quixote as Hero of the Same]
ESSAYS ON SELECTED EPISODES OF DON QUIJOTE
Elias L. Rivers·[Cervantes's Revolutionary Prologuel
Ruth Anthony E1 Saffar`In Marcela's Case
Robert ter Horst·Sex and the Chain Gang
Edward Dudley·[Rescuing Dorotea]
Nicolas Wey-Gomez ·Anselmo's Eating Disorder
Maria Antonia Gates·[Cervantes's Veiled Woman]
Henry W. Sullivan·[The Duke's Theatre of Sadism]
Carroll B. Johnson·[Dreaming in the Cave of Montesinos]
Anne J. Cruz·Don Quijote's Disappearing Act
FICCIONES ON DON QUIfOTE
Jorge Luis Borges ~ Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography