Salman Rushdie's twelfth novel, Quichotte, is a multilayered text designed to examine the relationships among a writer, a writer's fictional creations, and a reader who consumes the writer's imagined scenarios. Two parallel narratives exist alongside one another throughout the novel, with one thread focusing on Quichotte, the protagonist of a failed spy writer's new novel, and the other thread focusing on the writer himself, a man named Brother. Over the course of the novel, Rushdie addresses themes such as corruption, vulnerability, and family bonds.
Salman Rushdie embodies in his own life and in his writings the conundrums of the postcolonial author, writing within the tradition of Indo-English literature while simultaneously appealing to the con...
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The Indian/British author Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 1947) was a political parablist whose work often focused on outrages of history and particularly of religions. His book The Satanic Verses earned h...
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(Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie