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comment by johnnyFive

Yeah, notes are good, but that's not exclusive to a translation (both my Spanish copies of Don Quijote and One Hundred Years of Solitude are annotated).





wasoxygen  ·  3273 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's true. My Cátedra edition has extensive annotations as I recall, but as I was already struggling with all the names of flowers and birds in the text, the notes en español were beyond my reach. Maybe one day.

johnnyFive  ·  3272 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's the one I have! I got it on a lark from the local college bookstore while I was in high school. I find the "interpretive" notes or whatever super annoying, but the historical context and definitions for more obscure words are quite helpful.