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Cargando... Quixot (Catalan Edition) (2019 original; edición 2020)por Salman Rushdie (Autor), Marc Rubió (Traductor)
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![]() ![]() I'm a fan of Rushdie's taking a stand for freedom in fiction and his political views, but I've struggled in the past to appreciate his work. I could not do it with Midnight's Children, but here is a much more recent offering that I got along with immediately. It's also a wonderful read on the heels of his memoir "Joseph Anton" because there are so many things from Rushdie's actual life - real occurrences and influences - that appear here. That should not be surprising. There is always a temptation to try reading an author into his work. Rushdie both invites and confounds the effort by inserting an intermediate layer. First we're introduced to Quichotte, a modern-day Quixote setting out to win the hand of his Oprah-like idol. Then we are introduced to Brother, the author who is writing Quichotte's story. Rushdie is still there, even addressing the reader directly as he writes about Brother, but Quichotte remains a step removed and his story illuminates that of Brother's. Then, like his idol Jorge Borges, Rushdie takes things a step further and introduces this novel's Sancho - a figment of Quichotte's imagination brought to life, but one who seems aware of Brother's existence. Or is his narrative just being written that way by Brother? And then Sancho's cricket starts talking ... It must sound very complicated and random in summary, but it plays out in a very plainspoken and straightforward manner. Rushdie invites us inside the process by which fiction is spun from real life, and how it can be a cathartic process for the author at the same time as it entertains a reader. As a Cervantes fan I loved the parallels drawn to Quixote's classic adventure, and how well this is made to mesh with contemporary social commentary. Most of all I appreciated the tour inside of a celebrated author's head and methods, a how-to guide that is anything but dry. Having read a few of Rushdie's books, Quichotte is by far the best! Blending whimsy with a contemporary spin on Don Quixote he takes the reader on a journey into the mind Sam DuChamp, an author writing the Quichotte story toggling back and forth between his life and the characters. Adding contemporary political, economic and social elements along with subtle racial overtones the plot causes the reader to pay close attention. Rushdie has used some unusual naming, storytelling and character ideas blending them together like a cake batter! His sense of humor and sarcasm shines in this book, a quality I hadn't experienced with his other stories. Highly recommended for those who enjoy great storytelling that at times will throw you due to rapid switchbacks between Quichotte and DuChamp. I actually rate this 4.5 stars since it's unique in all ways! This book is a satire of life in the 21st century, covering contemporary issues such as immigration, globalization, multi-culturalism, celebrity, politics, religion, social media, opioids, racism, stalking, cyber hacking, and much more. It includes many pop-culture references, literary allusions, and socio-political commentary. Rushdie employs the idea behind Don Quixote, but this book is very different in tone and content, more like a riff on a theme. The plot revolves around an author, Sam DuChamps, writing a book about Ismail Smile, an older traveling salesman whose alias is Quichotte (key-SHOTT). Through Quichotte’s obsession with television, he notices and “falls in love” with Miss Salma R, an Oprah-like talk show host of eastern Indian descent. Quichotte and his imaginary “son,” Sancho, set off on a journey to win her, but first he must pass through seven valleys of trials and purifications. As he travels across America, he encounters racially motivated harassment, a scientist working on a portal to an alternate reality, various people involved in opioid distribution, and mastodons running amok. DuChamps’s life mirrors the book he is writing (sans mastodons) and the twin stories eventually converge into an extravaganza of action. It takes quite a while for the story to ramp up, as there are many moving parts, lots of characters, and two sets of narratives. It is a thinking person’s book involving a complex structure, critique of the dumbing down of critical thought, psychological insights on human nature, and musings on space and time. Rushdie employs elements of the picaresque, the metaphysical, and the absurd to make a point about the deterioration of society. He sprinkles in bits of humor along the way. It takes place mostly in the US, with smaller segments in the UK and India. The beginning chapters jump quickly from one thing to the next and the different threads start coming together at about the half-way point. It started off as a not-so-pleasant experience but gained momentum and became riveting near the end. I appreciate the literary merit in this work and admired Rushdie’s virtuosity in assembling this intricate mix of genres (contemporary literature, fantasy, science fiction) and themes. It requires effort on the reader’s part, but the payoff is worth it. I picked up this book based on the strength of Golden House, the only other book by Rushdie that I’ve read. This book is very different. I don’t think it will appeal to everyone, and I imagine it will generate extreme reactions, but if you appreciate a romp through the absurd, you may enjoy it. I received an advanced reader’s copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This book is scheduled for release on September 3, 2019. I borrowed this book soon after its author Salman Rushdie had been stabbed in New York. It's a whimsical, funny and bittersweet book about making fantasy worlds in order to escape from trauma, referencing of course Don Quixote, the most famous fantasist. It has a book-within-a book (within a...) structure. The fantasies of the protagonists bleed into each other. Along the way it comments on modern America, United Kingdom and India and where they all went wrong. It reads like a final book, facing mortality, and maybe it is.
No, it’s not a type of canape. It’s Quichotte as in Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s 17th-century proto-novel, here reimagined by Salman Rushdie as a 21st-century post-novel. Realism, apparently, is no longer up to the job of describing our nutzoid world. As one character suggests, “the surreal, or even the absurd, now offer the most accurate descriptors of real life” Pertenece a las series editorialesA tot vent (727) Fue inspirado porPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Inspirado por la obra de Cervantes, Sam DuChamp, un escritor mediocre de thrillers de espías, crea el personaje de Quijote, un vendedor cortés y pasado de moda que vive obsesionado con la televisión y que está enamorado platónicamente de una estrella de la pequeña pantalla. Junto con su hijo (imaginario) Sancho, Quijote se embarca en una aventura a través de Estados Unidos para probar que es merecedor de la mano de su doncella, enfrentándose con valor a los peligros de una época en que cualquier cosa puede suceder, desde ciberespías rusos al racismo e incluso la amenaza del fin del mundo. Mientras tanto, su creador, atraviesa su propia crisis de mediana edad y siente la necesidad de probarse a sí mismo. Al igual que Cervantes escribió Don Quijote para satirizar la cultura de su tiempo, Rushdie embarca al lector en un viaje salvaje por un país al borde del colapso moral y espiritual. Y con la magia a la que nos tiene acostumbrados en sus historias, las vidas de DuChamp y Quijote se confunden en una búsqueda profundamente humana del amor y en un divertido retrato de una era en la que, efectivamente, realidad y ficción son cada vez más indistinguibles. Una original relectura del clásico de Cervantes adaptada al siglo XXI, a través de la mirada de uno de los mejores escritores actuales.================================================================================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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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