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Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quijote de la Mancha. Edición de Castilla-La Mancha. Al cuidado de Francisco Rico. Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha. Empresa Pública Don Quijote de la Mancha, 2005. CI + 1243 pp.
Rico, Francisco. El texto del "Quijote": Preliminares a una ecdótica del Siglo de Oro. Valladolid: Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Espanoles, Universidad de Valladolid, 2005. 566 pp.
The edition of Don Quijote by a large team of Cervantes scholars and coordinated by Francisco Rico that was first published in 1998, and in a slightly revised version in 2004, has been universally praised and is often considered the closest thing we have to a 'definitive' edition of Cervantes' novel. The edition under consideration here, published by the Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (C-LM), reproduces that text of the novel, thus putting into the hands of readers an inexpensive, expertly annotated edition, but without all the extensive critical paraphernalia and bibliography of the exhaustively annotated edition for scholars. This is the second such edition to be made available, The edition of Don Quijote by a large team of Cervantes scholars and coordinated by Francisco Rico that was first published in 1998, and in a slightly revised version in 2004, has been universally praised and is often considered the closest thing we have to a 'definitive' edition of Cervantes' novel. The edition under consideration here, published by the Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (C-LM), reproduces that text of the novel, thus putting into the hands of readers an inexpensive, expertly annotated edition, but without all the extensive critical paraphernalia and bibliography of the exhaustively annotated edition for scholars. This is the second such edition to be made available,
But if the text of the novel is identical in these two editions, the introductory and scholarly apparatus is not. The introductory material of the RAE edition begins with a 'Presentación' by Rico and is followed by essays by Mario Vargas Llosa, Francisco Ayala, and Martín de Riquer, and ends with a 'Nota al texto' by Rico. The C-LM edition also begins with a 'Presentación'...