However, it’s not acceptable to intentionally cause damage, even in the pursuit of the greater good. In the back seat of their battered car, aptly named Rosinante, is an inexhaustible case of good Manchegan wine.

Greene’s is the doubt that breaks his character open, his the humanity that must confront the corruption within the Church. Monsignor Quixote’ (1982) by Graham Greene is a contemporary re-imagining/repositioning of Cervantes brilliant classic ‘Don Quixote’ – the story is still set in Spain, but now in the 1980’s rather than the 1600’s. But I knew that Don Quixote lurked somewhere deep in my inner being and possibly on my bookshelves too. Cuando hurga en citas de eruditos clásicos de quién no conozco nada se pone un poco tedioso, pero basta pasar ligeramente sobre estos pasajes y pronto sucederá algo más animado.

But the death isn't ruled a murder—and might never have been if one of the gang—a cadging sybarite named Bunny Corcoran—hadn't shown signs of cracking under the secret's weight. Although the whole experience reaffirms his faith and life choices, he better understands why he follows Catholicism and what it means to him.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. The book is the last one of Graham Greene's religious novels and centres around the priest of the parish priest of the village El Toboso who claims to be a descendant of Don Quixote. Wonderful soft adventure, gallons of wine, and the talk is of purple nylon socks, Marxism, Roman Catholicism and onanism. In this light-hearted pastiche of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Green explores faith and morality in post-Franco Spain. The festive holidays are the perfect time to escape the cold, cosy up with a hot drink and lose yourself in a new book.

Always looking for ways to move Father Quixote elsewhere, he doesn’t like it when the villagers give Father Quixote so much attention because it makes him susceptible to pride and vanity. A knight of faith, according to Kierkegaard, dares to have faith and in this way, in his rejection of ordinary life (and the rules of ordinary life, to borrow professor's phrase), he appears mad or a fool. Essentially, as well as being a very strong novel in its’ own right, Greene’s novel ‘Monsignor Quixote’ certainly adds to and compliments the legend, the mythology and the brilliance that is Cervantes original ‘Don Quixote’ and that ultimately should always be the readers starting point, before turning to Greene’s reinvented Quixote.