5/27/2023 0 Comments Salman rushdie quixoteInstead of Don Quixote’s old nag Rocinante, Quichotte drives an old Chevy Cruze across the United States. The novel also features Sancho as his son, a modern substitute for the original squire, Sancho Panza, and Salma R (a near homonym of Salman), an opioid-addicted talk-show host who stands in for Dulcinea del Toboso, a promiscuous pig raiser who is elevated to the status of royalty and female perfection by Don Quixote. Quichotte, Rushdie’s latest novel (his 14th, short-listed for this year’s Booker Prize) features a parodic descendent of Don Quixote - Quichotte (adopted from the title of Jules Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte, first performed in 1910). It attracted 50 percent more votes than any other book, including those by Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. In 2002, the Guardian surveyed 100 of the “world’s best authors” (including Salman Rushdie) regarding which book was the best of all time. AFTER THE BIBLE, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is said to be the best-selling book of all time, with estimated sales of 500 million copies.
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