10/09/2020
Why is Don Quixote so enduring? It is the oldest literary work we can classify as a "novel", and if you have read at all--even in translation-- you know it sounds nearly extraterrestrial, let alone from another millennium.
But what makes it work, really work, is its timeless depiction of a masculine heart in full bloom. Even though Quixote is so blind as to attack windmills, seek adventures with a clod, and fight for the honor of the ugliest woman in the land, Cervantes strikes a DIRECT HIT on what John Eldredge calls the "secret of a man's soul":
“Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue" ― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
