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. (20000913)
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"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 )
"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 )
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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 (20050217)
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Monsignor Quixote travels the roads of Post-Franco Spain with Sancho Panza (a committed communist and former Mayor) in an ancient little car he affectionately calls, Rocinante.
Their journey is both a physical and intellectual one, as the unlikely companions debate their seperate and (to an extent which Greene questions) opposed beliefs. They find common ground as they both experience the despair of doubt, forcing them to question their repective beliefs, and the root of their faith.
Greene forces the reader to ask whether we are machines, like Rocinante, free from morality and then damned to complete non-existence, or whether we have a soul in which case we are bound through life by morality and either damnation or salvation lie beyond.
Unashamedly based upon on Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote, Greene's novel is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.
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I found this version of Cervantes immortal tale highly amusing and entertaining. Set in a modern day post Franco Spain, Greene manages to cleverly capture the magic of the original. Greene offers the reader a deep and profound friendship between his versions of Don Quixote (in this case a Catholic priest) and Sancho Panza (a Communist ex mayor). These two, seemingly diametrically opposed characters, travel around Spain in a mechanised Rocinante, encountering and evading the ever present Guardia, engaging in theological and political debates, sleeping under the stars and drinking wine and eating cheese. There is so much warmth in this story and much of the humour is based on Quixote's naivety (I love Teresa's "steaks"), his relationship with church authority, purple socks (and bib), spiritual benevolence and, of course, the windmills. Like Will Self's version of Wilde's Dorian Grey, a great author can adapt a great story without destroying the core of its meaning and power but providing a new slant that enhances and glorifies the original. The bit about British tourists had me laughing out loud. Fantastic.
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By WendyS
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I love Graham Greene and had not read this one for some years. Brilliantly written and very funny story. Highly recommended.
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A good read
A good read about friendship between two unlikely friends. I went to a talk about the story and was inspired to buy the book.
Published 6 days ago by I. Inglis
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recommended by a priest
Nearly finished but enjoying what i have read so far, one of my priests recommended this as a good read.
Published 15 days ago by Shirl the birl
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Another masterpiece
As always I found a work by Greene to provide lucid engaging reading. Not one I had read before so a pleasing find. A thoughtful and at times diverting study of faith and doubt. Read more
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When faced with having to serve a meal to a visiting Cardinal who has been rescued by our hero, the housekeeper admits that there is only horse meat in the house, that is all she... Read more
Published 1 month ago by bradqual
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Humane, funny and profound
I thoroughly enjoyed this romp through post-Franco Spain, in which a parish priest, elevated (much to his surprise) to the rank of Monsignor, takes his friend of many years, the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jeremy Bevan
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A gentle modern day version of Don Quixote
I enjoyed this book because of the sympathetic characters of the two protagonists and their gentle discussions on Catholicism vs Marxism.
Published 2 months ago by Ms. A. Dunhill
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Monsignor Quixote
What more can I say, a vintage classic! Graham Green at his best. I do hope that you agree.
What more can I say, a vintage classic! Graham Green at his best. I do hope that you agree.
Published 5 months ago by David
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Too clever
The author has updated Cervantes' classic to post-Franco Spain.It must be over sixty years since I read the original, with great difficulty and little enjoyment. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Donald Hughes
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"Monsignor Quixote," (1982), is a 250 page, novella length, yet powerful late work by the widely admired British author Graham Greene. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Stephanie DePue
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Classic Green
This is truly a classic and one all-too-easily forgotten. I already had a copy and purchased another as a gift as I believe such a joyous read should be shared as much as... Read more
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