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.
- Cover: paperback
- Year of the edition: 2026
- Original title: Un été avec Don Quichotte
- Original language: French
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