Salman rushdie quixote5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In an interview from 2018, Rushdie talks about re-reading the novel and how to him “the idea of a man determinedly seeing the world according to his own vision, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, feels strikingly contemporary”. Don Quixote easily received fifty per cent more votes than any other book, highlighting its endurance. In 2002, BBC asked a panel of 100 “leading authors”, Salman Rushdie among them, to list the 10 works of fiction they considered the “best and most central works in world literature”. ![]() ![]() A founding work of Western literature, it is often labelled “the first modern novel”. Published in two parts, 16, Don Quixote remains the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. The whole thing has come apart at the seams.” Everything’s slip-sliding around and there’s nothing to hold on to. Here can be there, then can be now, up can be down, truth can be lies. ![]()
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