Thomas de Quincey takes us in The Spanish Nun to a Don Quixote journey, starring Catalina de Erauso, a nun who escapes from the monastery in which she grew up, throwing all the certainties and postulates founding a European and Patrician society.
Catalina's march is a continuation of Don Quixote's march in rebellion against the old values of the sixteenth century and preaching more enlightening, just and respectful values for man and his ability to establish a new, different world.
In The Spanish Nun, Quincy was able, through black sarcasm and the inclusion of human knowledge of all kinds, to present us with a literary masterpiece about adventure and the yearning for self-liberation from barriers and saturation with the spirit of steadfastness and innovation in front of eras that lose their luster and a world that is aging day after day.
