Like Cervantes classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Synopsis 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.

With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This edition features a new introduction by John Auchard.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Published in 1932, Monsignor Quixote is Graham Greene's last religious novel, a fond homage to Cervantes, and a sincere exploration into the meaning of faith in the modern world. Accompanying him on his mission is his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village who argues politics and religion with Quixote and rescues him from the various troubles his innocence lands him in along the way. The film was a finalist for the 1986 BAFTA award for Best Single Television Drama Īlec Guinness received a BAFTA nomination for his portrayal.When Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes' fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets out on a journey to Madrid to purchase purple socks appropriate to his new station. Filmed in Spain ten years after Francisco Franco's death, the filming at the controversial mausoleum site Valley of the Fallen. The film is notable for being filmed in the actual locations Greene wrote about in his novel. The film stars Alec Guinness and Leo McKern, and features several notable actors including Rosalie Crutchley, Ian Richardson, Graham Crowden, Maurice Denham and an early role by Anton Lesser. Langley and original music by the Spanish composer Antón García Abril. The film was produced by Johnny Goodman, with Lloyd Shirley and Graham Greene, with cinematography by Norman G. Monsignor Quixote is a 1985 British television film later broadcast in the United States in 1987 on the PBS anthology series Great Performances.Īdapted from Graham Greene's novel of the same name, its teleplay is credited to Greene and Christopher Neame.

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