Title: Quichotte Pdf A Novel
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Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.
Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.
Advance praise for Quichotte
“Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism. . . . 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. . . . This novel can fly, it can float, it’s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot.”—The Sunday Times
“Quichotte [is] an updating of Cervantes’s story that proves to be an equally complicated literary encounter, jumbling together a chivalric quest, a satire on Trump’s America and a whole lot of postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys. . . . This is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind.”—The Times (UK)
“A brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder.”—Time
Avoid. A Complete Bore To begin let me say I have long been an admirer of Salman Rushdie, and consider him the finest writer in the English language today. His new novel, an homage to Cervantes Don Quixote, is a dense maze of interwoven stories. In it an elderly Indian man called Quichotte living in the US, who spends his days immersed in watching television, falls in love with a beautiful young drug addled Indian television superstar (a younger, more svelte version of Oprah). She becomes his Dulcinea. Quichotte, along with his son Sancho will make their way across the country to woo her. Interspersed in the Quichotte story there is the story of the author of Quichotte, a third rate writer of spy novels who has decided to try his hand at another genre. Insert into the Quichotte story the story of an Indian pharmaceutical millionaire called Dr.Smile who is making big bucks off of opiods. If it all sounds like a muddle be assured it is. Even worse it is a complete bore. I had no interest in any of the characters. Multiple times I wanted to abandon this book, yet I soldiered on. But even worse it is a great slap at America as a racist cauldron of stupid, evil white people. If you are new to Rushdie please avoid this book and begin with the magnificent Midnight's Children.Hahahahaha - what was I thinking? In 1989, I tried to read Satanic Verses, and while years later I sort of got through it, it was at such a low level of comprehension that I should be embarrassed to even use the word "read" in this context.So a few years after that and I was offered this review copy of Rushdie's new book, and I decided I'm a smart person now, and very well read, and I can certainly appreciate Salman Rushdie's obvious writing skills as who I am today.The answer remains "no, I can not." That's entirely my fault - my interests are nonfiction or fairly straightforward fiction as opposed to experimental or stylistic fiction like Rushdie has generally been known for. No doubt one of his books would prepare me for his style in a slightly more accessible way but I haven't read it. I probably should give "Joseph Anton" a try.So this reminded me of Marlon James "A Brief History of Seven Killings" that was hugely praised and award winning and that I totally couldn't connect with no matter how hard I tried. In a similar vein with this book, I tried to start at the beginning, then I tried to start in the middle, and I tried to jump around and I couldn't figure out what was going on, or even what I was supposed to be thinking.Look - I did not give it any sort of truly honest effort. I gave up. It was too hard, too detailed, too stylized - it demanded an investment from the reader that I am simply not prepared to give. So if you think I sound like you, then you're probably not going to be the audience for this book.But - if you're ANGRY at me, and you think I'm a big joke and an uneducated lazy rube - THEN maybe the book IS for you, because you're the type of reader who will go into Rushdie with your eyes wide open in a way that I didn't.So I tried, I failed, maybe I'll try again one day, but this book's just not for me.I'm giving it four stars because OBVIOUSLY he can write at a supreme quality - I would say every sentence went through ten drafts. Any oblique meaning on his part is totally intentional - he wants this to be an off-kilter Don Quitote experience...so it's no accident. It IS well-done, but it is NOT for casual readers or the hoi polloi like me.Quichotte's Quest Rushdie does not hold back in his Don Quixote-based satirical novel and it was a wild ride. Nothing is safe from his commentary: racism, opioid addiction, reality TV, technology. He lambasts them all.There are two stories here – that of the author known as Brother, or his pseudonym Sam DuChamp, while the other is his own creation. Tired of mild success as a spy thriller writer, Brother embarks on his greatest literary achievement in writing about Quichotte and his quest for the love of a famous TV personality. Along the way Quichotte conjures a teenage son Sancho, they witnesses a fatal shooting, he reconciles with his sister, and they even encounters mastodon-transformed residents of a New Jersey town (very bizarre). “But Quichotte had warned [Sancho] that reality as they had understood the word would now cease to exist…”Is Quichotte completely delusional in his pursuit of Salma R., the Indian actress turned Oprah-esque talk show host? Probably. But it was Salma’s back story that was even more intriguing because it led her to opioid addiction. Quichotte’s own cousin, Dr. Smile, is the head of the pharmaceutical behemoth responsible for inventing a powerful fentanyl spray that makes morphine seem like asprin. But prescribing pain medication to people like Salma who don’t really need it gets him into a lot of trouble. Add to the mix a tech billionaire with grand visions of saving the world from itself by sending humanity to alternate dimensions. The addition of a little science-fiction adds another layer of insanity to Quichotte’s already absurd quest.While Quichotte’s story has magical realism aspects, Brother’s narrative is much more grounded, although often the two worlds mirror each other since Brother is using elements from his own life to create Quichotte. He also reconciles with his sister, but the consequences of their reunion are much more tragic. There’s a little side-plot with his own estranged son, which allows him to have his own quasi-spiritual journey.As a whole, the book was a strange mash-up of genres and plots. It was occasionally goofy, often philosophic, and always smart. There were so many little nudge-nudge wink-winks throughout that I really had to pay attention to subtle connections. No doubt Rushdie is incredibly clever, but this book’s density and complexity might not appeal to everyone. Still, I enjoyed the quests of both Quichotte and Brother.
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