Don Quixote (Modern Library) by Miguel De Cervantes & Samuel Putnam

Author:Miguel De Cervantes & Samuel Putnam [De Cervantes, Miguel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2000-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

“For all of that,” observed Don Quixote, “they might well have said nothing about them; for there is no need of recording those events that do not alter the veracity of the chronicle, when they tend only to lessen the reader’s respect for the hero. You may be sure that Aeneas was not as pious as Vergil would have us believe, nor was Ulysses as wise as Homer depicts him.”

“That is true enough,” replied Sansón, “but it is one thing to write as a poet and another as a historian. The former may narrate or sing of things not as they were but as they should have been; the latter must describe them not as they should have been but as they were, without adding to or detracting from the truth in any degree whatsoever.”

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