Below is a drawing made by Picasso of two characters from a very famous novel. As a founding work of modern Western literature, this novel regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.
Different ages have tended to read different things into the novel. When it was first published, it was usually interpreted as a comic novel. After the French Revolution it was popular in part due to its central ethic that individuals can be right while society is quite wrong and seen as disenchanting—not comic at all. In the 19th century it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily tell "whose side the author was on." By the 20th century it had come to occupy a canonical space as one of the foundations of modern literature.
The novel is also responsible for the adjective X, which is behavior that is noble in an absurd way, or the desire to perform acts of chivalry in a radically impractical manner.
Identify the novel and the word X.
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Painting is of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. X = quixotic. The novel is Don Quixote of La Mancha.
Don Quixote. X = quixotic.
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The novel is Don Quixote.
Just from the adjective clue, I think its Don Quixote ... the adjective being Quixotic
don quixote and hence quixotic
The full title of the novel is "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha", and X = quixotic.
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