![]() ![]() Quichotte’s conviction that “love will find a way” shapes his entire being, and this rumination dominates his life in all aspects. Through the sprawling and deep love stories of Quichotte, Rushdie unveils the deteriorating postcolonial condition and posthumanist imaginations. The quest for a rather unrealistic love and an unflinching desire to believe in the power of love against all odds remain at the crux of the novel. But his work does not end there: he provides insights into the rotten state of contemporary times by remaining fully grounded in the past. Not one to pull a punch, Rushdie’s latest novel, Quichotte, foregrounds the ideals of ubiquitous love and tolerance in a world that is consistently veering toward hatred, exclusion, and intolerance.Īgainst the backdrop of rising hostility among and within nations as well as individuals, Rushdie endeavors to find a fine balance between history and fiction through a reinterpretation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. ![]() Salman Rushdie, the much-celebrated as well as vilified Indian-born British author of the novels Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses, among others, has come up with a firecracker of a new novel. ![]()
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