Don Quixote
The novel follows the eccentric Don Quixote, who, obsessed with chivalric tales, dons crude armor and a cardboard helm to pursue knighthood. He recruits the pragmatic Sancho Panza as squire and envisions the peasant Aldonza as his idealized Dulcinea. His misadventures, including battles with windmills, satirize the social and literary norms of his era.