5/28/2023 0 Comments Quichotte rushdie![]() This novel can fly, it can float, it’s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot. Rushdie has taken bits of our shared lives, scraps of our language, and constructed a vehicle as wondrous as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But we are still watching a master at work. We are a long way from the fertile lyricism of Midnight’s Children, and there is nothing here approaching the death of Changez Chamchawala in The Satanic Verses. The narration is fleet of foot, always one step ahead of the reader - somewhere between a pinball machine and a three-dimensional game of snakes and ladders. ![]() In Quichotte, Rushdie brilliantly demonstrates the way that a writer’s life seeps into their work, sometimes deliberately, sometimes less so. A glorious 21st-century riff on Cervantes’s 17th century classic Don Quixote. ![]() Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism. ![]()
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