The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion: “the essential characteristic of death as it appears in the Chanson de Roland is that the death... gives advance warning of its arrival”
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett: “"I know 'The Song of Roland,' and 'The Pilgrimage of William of Orange'—" "What do you mean, you know them?" "I can recite them."”
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo: “"One of them was the Song of Roland, and he had read it to them." — Hector Adonis reading real books to Guiliano and his men.”