Don Quixote

Overview

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is one of the most influential works of world literature and a foundational novel of the modern tradition. The story follows Alonso Quixano, a man so absorbed in chivalric romances that he adopts the identity of Don Quixote and sets out as a wandering knight in search of adventure and justice. Accompanied by his pragmatic and witty squire, Sancho Panza, he repeatedly confronts the gap between his idealized vision of the world and reality. Through irony, humor, and social satire, Cervantes explores the conflict between idealism and reason, imagination and reality, freedom and social convention. Beneath its comic surface, Don Quixote is a profound examination of human nature, illusion, dignity, and the power of literature to shape the way people perceive the world.