{"product_id":"don-quixote","title":"Don Quixote","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1605, with its second part following in 1615, Miguel de Cervantes’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows an ageing country gentleman who, having lost himself in tales of chivalry, sets out across the Spanish countryside to revive the age of knights-errant. Renaming himself Don Quixote, he takes the practical farmer Sancho Panza as his squire, and together they encounter windmills mistaken for giants, roadside inns transformed into castles, and a world that rarely corresponds to the knight’s grand imaginings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart comedy, part adventure and part searching meditation on the relationship between illusion and reality, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gently unsettles the boundary between madness and idealism, exposing both the absurdity and the dignity of its hero’s convictions. Cervantes’s inventive narrative, playful treatment of storytelling and richly drawn characters helped shape the modern novel, influencing generations of writers across Europe and beyond. Beneath its satire of chivalric romance lies a tender, enduring question: what becomes of the world when we insist on seeing it as it might be, rather than as it is?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Miguel de Cervantes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Don Quixote — the first modern novel — remains the finest.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Harold Bloom, The Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64067783721290,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/don-quixote","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}