Is the Spanish book Don Quijote the most famous book ever?

[Cristiano viejo]

Bible and Quran aside. I say yes

[Also]

Probably Romeo and Juliet.

[Ars Moriendi]

Hmmm... not sure. Maybe, yes.
Still not entirely sure if it'd be more famous than Homer's Illiad/Odyssey, but anyhow, it will be in any list of most famous books.

[Fenrir]

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

[KawaiiKawaii]

No. Harry Potter is after the bible and the Quran. Or, as Fenrir said, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.

[Smeagol]

I don't know, but I read it last year, and it really is a masterpiece. Way better than anything Shakespeare wrote. (Though I only read a few of his plays, but they bored me mostly.)

[Sikeliot]

I think it would be if not for some Shakespeare plays, like Romeo and Juliet, or Hamlet.

[Lábaru]

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, probably the book loses a lot of quality in the translation, some of Its sentences are simply untranslatable outside the Castilian, at least with a sound so perfect

"Se va a la plaza del nunca por la calle del ya voy."

"Voto a Dios que me espanta esta grandeza y que diera un doblón por describilla: porque ¿a quién no sorprende y maravilla esta máquina insigne, esta riqueza?"



other phrases are simpler
"Aún entre los demonios hay unos peores que otros, y entre muchos malos hombres suele haber alguno bueno."

"El retirar no es huir, ni el esperar es cordura, cuando el peligro sobrepuja a la esperanza."

"Dulcinea del Toboso es la más hermosa mujer del mundo, y yo el caballero más desdichado de la tierra"


even in satire and parody Don Quixote does not lose the essence of the a proud and noble Castilian





for me the best book ever written, but I understand its difficulty in other languages ​​and cultures.

"La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad así como por la honra se puede y debe aventurar la vida, y, por el contrario, el cautiverio es el mayor mal que puede venir a los hombres. Digo esto, Sancho, porque bien has visto el regalo, la abundancia que en este castillo que dejamos hemos tenido; pues en mitad de aquellos banquetes sazonados y de aquellas bebidas de nieve me parecía a mí que estaba metido entre las estrechezas de la hambre, porque no lo gozaba con la libertad que lo gozara si fueran míos, que las obligaciones de las recompensas de los beneficios y mercedes recebidas son ataduras que no dejan campear al ánimo libre. ¡Venturoso aquel a quien el cielo dio un pedazo de pan sin que le quede obligación de agradecerlo a otro que al mismo cielo!"

Don Quixote is perfectly interpreted by the Spanish José Sacristán, a tall, thin, elongated face Atlantid with the unmistakable Western features of Iberia.

[Cristiano viejo]

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Good joke.

No. Harry Potter is after the bible and the Quran. Or, as Fenrir said, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.

Good jokes.

Hmmm... not sure. Maybe, yes.
Still not entirely sure if it'd be more famous than Homer's Illiad/Odyssey, but anyhow, it will be in any list of most famous books.

Good points.
But I want to make an observation, everybody knows the plot of Don Quijote, i.e. an errant knight who is crazy and that starts a series of wacky adventures in search of his lover, his fights with mills and giants etc, but I doubt very much that everybody knows which are the arguments of the Odyssey and the Iliad, beyond Ulisses.

I agree wiht the fame of Romeo and Juliet.

[KawaiiKawaii]

Good joke.




Good points.
But I want to make an observation, everybody knows the plot of Don Quijote, i.e. an errant knight who is crazy and that starts a series of wacky adventures in search of his lover, his fights with mills and giants etc, but I doubt very much that everybody knows which are the arguments of the Odyssey and the Iliad, beyond Ulisses.

I agree wiht the fame of Romeo and Juliet.

It's not a joke. The little red book is distributed to every Chinese person. There are 1.3 billion Chinese. You do the maths.