It's an interesting message, though parts of it requires considerable suspension of disbelief to grasp. I'm no critic, sir, but I estimate that you're telling the reader that the surreal, and even the absurd, now potentially offers the most accurate descriptors of real life.
incorporate elements of the periodic, and of satire and pastiche. If you like this, read: Midnight's Children (Vintage, $20.95, Books Kinokuniya), Salman Rushdie's dazzling magical-realist novel about a young man born at the precise moment of India's independence.He said he was trying to write about impossible, obsessional love, father-son relationship, sibling quarrels, and yes, unforgivable things about Indian immigrants, racism towards them, crooks among them about cyber spies, science fictional and "real" realities, the death of the author, the end of the world. Unfortunately, this isn't enough to stop the reader from wishing that the author had a few better tricks up his sleeve. The idea may be to evoke the sense of an echo chamber or a wilderness of mirrors - exemplifying, perhaps, the insularity and narcissism of people in society.
Rushdie's novel can feel frustratingly involuted. So are the lines between Rushdie and his characters.Įverywhere in the novel are shadows of the real-life author himself, who is around Quichotte's age and has a name similar to that of his hero's love interest, Salma R.īut to what direction do these metafictional conceits tend? The idea is to hold up a mirror to the fragmented world of fake news, "alternative facts" and nightmarish politics, which can sometimes feel too awful to be true.Įventually, life and art turn into each other and the lines between DuChamp and the duo are increasingly blurred.
The plot sometimes feels like a sliced-and-diced mishmash of news you might find on your social media feed - mass shootings, ethics of big pharma and apocalyptic fantasies.
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