A Don Quixote for the Modern Age

Quichotte (pronounced key-shot), as the first page helpfully tells the reader, is a novel written by someone who very obviously watches a lot of TV, or so it seems. At its best the novel reflects an emergent way of thinking where there is very little differentiation between what is real and what is not. At its worst it is an exasperating text because it drags until the very last pages. But like in Cervantes’s Don Quixote, to which Salman Rushdie’s current novel is a sort of homage, the journey is the story.