![]() ![]() As they travel the world in pursuance of Quichotte’s quest, the question of what it means to be human is posed over and over again. He also brings into existence, through sheer force of will, the son he has always wanted, whom he names Sancho. Most of the narrative focuses on the eponymous lunatic, whose mind, addled by a stroke and by the consumption of far too much TV, conjures up a dream of gallantly proving himself worthy of Salma’s love. The dual plotline follows both Sam as he writes the story of Quichotte and the character of Quichotte himself. He chronicles the travels of a lunatic who calls himself Quichotte, who is on a quest to earn the love of Salma R., a woman he only knows from a daytime TV show. Quichotte is the name of a book-within-a-book being written by Sam DuChamp, a mediocre ageing spy-fiction novelist. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-nominated novel Quichotte (pronounced in the French way, key-SHOT) is a work of postmodern picaresque with a metafictional narrative device thrown in for good measure. ![]()
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