Our Lord Don Quixote by Miguel de Unamuno: A devout Catholic and early existentialist in the vein of Kierkegaard, Unamuno wrote a series of philosophical essays comparing Don Quixote to Christ and Ignatius of Loyola, emphasizing the tragic and absurd aspects of the quixotic mission, which follows the laws of God and shuns the laws of men.
“It is a grand and terrible thing that the hero should be the only one to see his heroism from the inside, to see into its very vitals, and that everyone else sees it only from the outside, in its external features. It is for this reason that the hero lives alone in the midst of men and that his solitude serves him as comforting company...he will be ready to bear with resignation the misfortune of having his neighbors judge him according to the general law and not the law of God.”
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