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What can Don Quixote still tell us today, more than four centuries after it first saw the light of day? In One Summer with Don Quixote, William Marx embarks on a personal and literary journey through one of the greatest works of world literature, revealing why Cervantes’ hero remains so strikingly relevant.
If we can all recognize something of ourselves in Don Quixote, it is because this novel confronts one of humanity’s most fundamental questions: how are we to live in a world that seems devoid of meaning? The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance embodies the individual who, despite repeated collisions with reality, chooses to believe in the possibility of a different world—a world where honour, justice, and hope still endure.
Witty, insightful, and deeply humane, One Summer with Don Quixote invites readers to return to Cervantes’ masterpiece and shows why the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance still has more to say to us than many of the heroes of our own age.
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The Worthy Knight is a symbol of modern man confronting a world in which all the structures that once gave him meaning are disintegrating: ancient chivalry is giving way to a courtly and administrative aristocracy; the Catholic faith is being called into question across Europe; Christians and Muslims are clashing over the Mediterranean; Europeans are realizing they are contemporaries of other continents and peoples; and the Earth itself is being displaced from its central position in the universe. Such is the picture of Cervantes’s era. It would be easy to find corresponding parallels in our own time: climate change, the questioning of social and family models, the end of faith in progress, clashes of values and cultures, senseless and tragic wars on Europe’s doorstep, and a ruthless struggle for global dominance. There is no shortage of reasons for disillusionment—no less so than in the Spanish Golden Age.
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- ISBN: 978-953-369-078-0
- Dimensions: 110x170 mm
- Number of pages: 248
- Cover: paperback
- Year of the edition: 2026
- Original title: Un été avec Don Quichotte
- Original language: French
- Translation:
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