Travelling with Quichotte: Reading Rushdie’s Quixotic Reinvention of Cervantes’ Don
| Title: | Travelling with Quichotte: Reading Rushdie’s Quixotic Reinvention of Cervantes’ Don |
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| Authors: | Abin Chakraborty |
| Source: | RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, Vol 27, Iss 1, Pp 102-108 (2022) |
| Publisher Information: | Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), 2022. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Collection: | LCC:Literature (General) |
| Subject Terms: | picaresque, postmodern, atavism, racism, xenophobia, plurality, self-reflexive, Literature (General), PN1-6790 |
| More Details: | Salman Rushdies latest novel Quichotte , inspired by Cervantes Don Quixote , revolves around the journey of a fictional character named Ismail Smile who adopts the name Quichotte as he embarks on a fantastic quest across America to win the heart of celebrated actor and talk-show host Salma R, since his perception of reality has been muddled by incessant immersion in television shows, just as the mind of Cervantes don had been addled by his preoccupation with chivalric romances. While Cervantes protagonist, through his various misadventures, ironically exposed the many maladies of contemporary society, Quichottes journey across America, accompanied by his son Sancho, whom he miraculously imagines into existence, also operates as a picaresque narrative that methodically dissects the alarming aberrations of contemporary world order. Taking Quixotes inability to distinguish between the real and the fictional as his starting point, Rushdies text eclectically foregrounds the menacing fissures of a social order where a rampant disregard for facts also becomes a platform for widespread regression into atavistic atrocities. The proposed paper will focus on such issues and more in order to highlight how the famed Man of La Mancha continues to operate as a relevant figure even within the fractious contradictions of our times. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English Russian |
| ISSN: | 2312-9220 2312-9247 |
| Relation: | http://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/viewFile/30724/20588; https://doaj.org/toc/2312-9220; https://doaj.org/toc/2312-9247 |
| DOI: | 10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-1-102-108 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/74616d5774c04cfe85485173e7eab81c |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.74616d5774c04cfe85485173e7eab81c |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 23129220 23129247 |
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| DOI: | 10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-1-102-108 |
| Published in: | RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism |
| Language: | English Russian |