Monsignor Quixote is Graham Greene’s last Catholic novel, however the way in which he explores faith and religion is quite entertaining. Naïve father Quixote gets a commission for Monsignor on a lark and decides to take some time off with his friend known as Sancho, the communist former mayor of El Toboso. These two have a great fondness for wine and talking of their great religions: Catholicism and communism. Quixote quotes the great religious books and Sancho from Marx and Lenin. It is also homage to Cervantes' masterpiece, which I dully admit to not having read it yet-perhaps this will nudge me toward the classic. I definitely want to read it, but I am a little intimidated by the size of that doorstop. This novel on the other hand was less than 200 pages and very entertaining. Once again it gets the "Penguin Classics" treatment with a thoughtful introduction by John Auchard.
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