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Review title: Worse translation I've ever read
Product review: I am a Spanish speaker and have read the Poema del Mio Cid many times before, however I wanted to have a copy of my own. The translation is probably the worse I've ever read. The beautiful Old Spanish poem is turned into modern Spanish prose eliminating the poetical feeling to the work.Whole sections are paraphrased affecting the real meaning of those parts. Besides that, there are many misspellings and other grammar errors.The formatting is another thing that is terribly inconsistent and confusing, changing sometimes within the same page, which sometimes makes it hard to know if what you are reading are comments by the author or by the characters.The historical analysis is not bad, but it is also not the best.My advice: get another copy of the Poem, this edition does not make any justice to one most important Spanish works of literature.
