Re: "standard" Arabic translation of Don Quixote


Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> Marc Adler wrote:
> > Is there a translation of Don Quixote which is considered "standard" in
> > Arabic?
>
> Doesn't Cervantes make it quite clear that his book is in fact a
> translation from an Arabic original by Cide Hamete Benengeli? I think
> Sancho gets the name wrong & calls him "Berenjena".

it's just a narrative device. the last word apparently refers to an
eggplant.

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