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Monsignor Quixote

Graham Greene author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

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'A deliciously funny novel and an affectionate offering to all that is noblest and least changing in the people and life of Spain' The Times

Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante – a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes’s classic, this comic, picaresque fable offers enduring insights into our life and times.With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times.

A deliciously funny novel and affectionate offering to all that is noblest and least-changing in the people and life of Spain * The Times *
A powerful late work...a mixture of entertainment and deep human awareness -- Malcolm Bradbury
Monsignor Quixote is important in showing what may be the last stage of the novelist's long argument with himself about the needs, nature and effect of faith * Times Literary Supplement *
Graham Greene's best, most absorbing, adept and effortless novel * Spectator *
One of the finest writers of any language... Monsignor Quixote is a tour de force and a revealing document of Greene's theological and political intelligence * Washington Post *

ISBN: 9780099283942

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm

Weight: 149g

208 pages