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The most common misreading of “Don Quixote” is to see it as offering a stable and summarizable truth.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2017

Still, a contrarian might argue that there is, fundamentally, just a single basic plot, summarizable in five words: “A stranger comes to town.”

From Washington Post • May 12, 2016

And anyway, as Roth plaintively points out, a work of literary fiction isn’t summarizable in a two-to-three minute spot—novels already stand as the only possible expressions of themselves!

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2016

Maybe that's because he died when he was only 31 years old, his work and personality still unfinished, therefore not fully knowable or easily summarizable.

From Time Magazine Archive