An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, and Related Texts
by Franklin W. Knight, Andrew Hurley

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Summary of An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, and Related Texts

Andrew Hurley's daring new translation dramatically foreshortens that 500 years by reversing the usual priority of a translation; rather than bring the Brev?sima Relaci?n to the reader, it brings the reader to the Brev?sima Relaci?n-not as it is, but as it might have been, had it been originally written in English. The translator thus allows himself no words or devices unavailable in English by 1560, and in so doing reveals the prophetic voice, urgency and clarity of the work, qualities often obscured in modern translations. An Introduction by Franklin Knight, notes, a map, and a judicious set of Related Readings offer further aids to a fresh appreciation of this foundational historical and literary work of the New World and European engagement with it.

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