![]() “Don Quixote is astonishingly modern, even postmodern-a novel whose characters know they are being written about and have opinions on the writing," Rushdie says in an email interview. At other times, Rushdie’s brilliant plots disturb the universe, as in his reflections on migration and its aftermath in The Satanic Verses (1988), which led to a fatwa from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, forcing Rushdie into hiding for a decade. Sometimes, as in Midnight’s Children (which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and the Best of the Booker in 2008), this universe helped a continent find its voice (as Clark Blaise put it in a review of the novel in The New York Times). Rushdie’s work, over the years, has also sought to squeeze multiple universes into his plots, containing the ambiguities, cruelties, pleasures and miracles of life. He felt he had “met" the old fool and his imaginary son, around whom his latest novel, Quichotte, takes shape.Ĭervantes’ novel contains a universe. ![]() Rushdie, now 72, is by no means a believer but he had a moment of epiphany. He would also be speaking about them during the double anniversary year. ![]() Sometime in 2015, on the eve of the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare (who died a day apart in 1616), Salman Rushdie was re-reading Cervantes’ Don Quixote to write an introduction to a collection of stories inspired by the two European greats. ![]()
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