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ÖNCÜ ROMANDAN ROMAN-ÖTESİNE: DON KİŞOT’UN YENİDEN YAZIMI OLARAK SALMAN RUSHDİE’NİN QUİCHOTTE’U

Year 2024, Volume: 17 Issue: 47, 1457 - 1469, 23.09.2024
https://doi.org/10.12981/mahder.1504681

Abstract

Salman Rushdie'nin 2019 tarihli romanı Quichotte, Rushdie'nin Miguel de Cervantes'in Don Kişot romanındaki kahramanın 21. yüzyıl versiyonu olarak yeniden hayal ettiği bir kurgudur. Roman, televizyon izleyerek deliren 70 yaşındaki başkahraman İsmail Smile'ın Smile Pharmaceuticals adlı bir ilaç şirketinde gezici satıcı olarak çalıştığı günümüz Amerika’sında başlar. Konu, İsmail’in kendisi gibi Hindistan’dan gelen ünlü televizyoncu Bayan Salma R.’ye olan aşkına odaklanıyor. Emekli olur, adını Quichotte olarak değiştirir ve Salma'nın aşkını kazanmak için bir arayışa çıkar. Bu arayış, bir yıldız kayması sırasında, kullandığı arabanın yolcu koltuğunda aniden beliren bir oğlu olmasını dilediğinde, Cervantes’in Don Kişot’unun tam bir kopyasına dönüşür. Ona Sancho adını verir.
Ancak anlatı, sadece Brother olarak anılan bir casus romancı tarafından yazılmış roman içinde bir romana dönüşür. Dolayısıyla Quichotte, Brother’ın klasik Don Kişot’u çağdaş bir ortamda yeniden yaratan hayal gücü haline gelir. Bu çalışma, sadece klasik bir romanı yeniden yazmakla kalmayan, aynı zamanda hakikatlerin ve anlatıcıların güvenilir olup olmadığına dair sorular soran Salman Rushdie’nin meta-anlatısında roman-ötesi kavramına odaklanmaktadır. Bu çalışma aynı zamanda deneysel roman-ötesi metinlerin manipüle edici gücünün Rushdie’nin karakterlerinin hayatlarındaki etkilerine de odaklanmaktadır.

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Etik izin gerektirmeyen bir çalışmadır.

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FROM PROTO-NOVEL TO POST-NOVEL: SALMAN RUSHDIE’S QUICHOTTE AS THE REWRITING OF DON QUIXOTE

Year 2024, Volume: 17 Issue: 47, 1457 - 1469, 23.09.2024
https://doi.org/10.12981/mahder.1504681

Abstract

Salman Rushdie’s 2019 novel Quichotte is the story of a hero reimagined by Rushdie as a 21st century version of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The novel opens in contemporary America where the 70-year-old protagonist Ismail Smile, who goes mad by watching TV, works as a travelling salesman for a pharmaceutical company called Smile Pharmaceuticals. The plot focuses on Ismail’s love for a famous television personality Miss Salma R. who, like Ismail, comes from India. He gets retired, changes his name to Quichotte and goes on a quest to win Salma’s love. The quest turns into a complete replica of Cervantes’s Don Quixote when, on a shooting star, he wishes that he had a son who suddenly appears in the passenger seat of the car he drives. He names him Sancho.
Yet, the narration turns out to be a novel in the novel written by a spy novelist referred to only as Brother. Quichotte, therefore, becomes Brother’s imagination that recreates the classical Don Quixote in a contemporary setting. This paper, then, focuses on the concept of post-truth in the meta-narrative of Salman Rushdie who not only rewrites a classical novel but also raises questions as to whether or not truths and narrators are reliable. This study also analyses the saturation of the manipulating power of post-truth era in the lives of Rushdie’s characters.

References

  • Aldama, F. L. (2003). Postethnic narrative criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Cervantes, M. (2003). Don Quixote. London: Penguin Classics.
  • Forster, E. M. (2005). Aspects of the novel. London: Penguin Books.
  • Fry. N. (2006). Anatomy of criticism. The novel: An anthology of criticism and theory 1900-2000, (ed.: D. J. Hale), 97-106, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Girard, R. (2006). Deceit, desire and the novel. The novel: An anthology of criticism and theory 1900-2000, (ed.: D. J. Hale), 294-314, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Jameson, F. (2006). The political unconscious. The novel: An anthology of criticism and theory 1900-2000, (ed.: D. J. Hale), 411-433, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Kluwick, U. (2011). Exploring magic realism in Salman Rushdie’s fiction. New York & London: Routledge.
  • Marzec, R. P. (1997). An ecological and postcolonial study of literature: From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Orwell, G. (1984). Nineteen eighty-four. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
  • Rushdie, S. (1981). Midnight’s children. London: Jonathan Cape.
  • Rushdie, S. (1982). Salman Rushdie: Interview. Kunapipi, 4 (2), 17-26.
  • Rushdie, S. (1992). The satanic verses. Dover: The Consortium.
  • Rushdie, S. (1999). The ground beneath her feet. London: Jonathan Cape.
  • Rushdie, S. (1983). Shame. London: Jonathan Cape.
  • Rushdie, S. (2019). Quichotte. London: Jonathan Cape.
  • Shklovsky, V. (2006). Sterne’s Tristram Shandy: Stylistic commentary. The novel: An anthology of criticism and theory 1900-2000, (ed.: D. J. Hale), 31-53, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Studies
Journal Section Articles
Authors

Mehmet Ali Çelikel 0000-0003-0402-9858

Early Pub Date September 21, 2024
Publication Date September 23, 2024
Submission Date June 25, 2024
Acceptance Date September 11, 2024
Published in Issue Year 2024 Volume: 17 Issue: 47

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APA Çelikel, M. A. (2024). FROM PROTO-NOVEL TO POST-NOVEL: SALMAN RUSHDIE’S QUICHOTTE AS THE REWRITING OF DON QUIXOTE. Motif Akademi Halkbilimi Dergisi, 17(47), 1457-1469. https://doi.org/10.12981/mahder.1504681