5/21/2023 0 Comments Rushdie quichotte review![]() ![]() ![]() It was no longer possible to predict the weather, or the likelihood of war, or the outcome of elections. Old friends could become new enemies and traditional enemies could be your new besties or even lovers. And in the Age of Anything-Can-Happen, well, anything could happen. Following a devastating “Interior Event” that renders impossible his previous life as a professor and journalist, he turns to work as a travelling pharmaceutical sales rep in the employ of his crooked cousin, and becomes obsessed with junk television in “the Age of Anything-Can-Happen”: ![]() Rushdie’s Quichotte (pronounced key-shot) is a man, too, for whom the dark present of the 21 st century world, in its confusion and disharmony, has lost its appeal. A contemporary retelling of the story of the self-styled knight’s exploits and his utter devotion to his romantic convictions in the face of dark times and unkind opposition is an entertaining and surprisingly effective framework employed in Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, Quichotte. Miguel de Cervantes’ seventeenth century novel, Don Quixote, was about a man unable to face the reality of his existence, a man on a seemingly deranged quest for an ideal of love, truth, and beauty in a world that for him had lost its enchantment. ![]()
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