Vijay Mishra

In Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte (2019), Sam Duchamp, the latter day Cide Hamete Benengeli of Miguel de Cervantes’s (Citation2005) Don Quixote, tells his sister that in the new book he is writing (which forms the basis of the narrator/Rushdie’s reconstruction of the novel) he would write about the “mind-numbing junk culture of his time [… about] unforgivable things [… and about] Indian immigrants, racism toward them” (289). And then, it seems as an afterthought, he adds a more theoretical premise: he would also write about the “intertwining of fictional and ‘real’ realities, the death of the author” (289)...