Quixote Reimagined: Magical Realism Meets the Opioid Epidemic
By Carol Levine Published on December 16, 2019
What is Don Quixote, Cervantes' 17th-century Spanish "Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha," doing in a 21st-century novel about America? He's on a quest to wed his Beloved. And what does this obsession have to do with the present-day opioid epidemic? Salman Rushdie's new novel Quichotte links these unlikely events and much more.
The opioid epidemic is the engine that drives the plot, but Rushdie uses it more as a symbol of the current American zeitgeist than as a devastating medical...
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