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“La generalización me incomoda, pero siempre lo he pensado de las tragedias: la complejidad verbal, las dimensiones sicológicas, las exigencias interpretativas que hacen que un espectador no pueda nunca asir la implicaciones completas de lo que se le presenta, y deba volver una y otra vez sobre el texto: todo eso me ha permitido durante mucho tiempo pensar en un Shakespeare cansado que un día, ya al final de su vida, se topa con la primera traducción del Quijote y considera, demasiado tarde, todo lo que habría podido hacer con esta nueva forma.”

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