SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019DON CHAOTIC
Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a fast-spinning postmodern double
Catherine wheel, says Holly Williams – impossible not to be dazzled
by, but also making a lot of choking smoke
Rushdie gives us a modern take on Cervantes
★★★☆☆
Salman Rushdie’s new novel – already longlisted for the Booker Prize – is a sprawling behemoth, feeling
finally as big in scope as Midnight’s Children, which twice won the Best of Booker. If that was an allegory for
India’s independence and then partition, Quichotte goes as far as to align the death of the author with the
end of the entire world.
Quichotte is an Indian man of advancing years, living in America and working as a travelling pharmaceutical