Quichotte Audiolibro Por Salman Rushdie arte de portada

Quichotte

A Novel

 Vista previa
OFERTA POR TIEMPO LIMITADO

3 meses gratis
Prueba por $0.00
La oferta termina el 31 de julio, 2025 a las 11:59PM PT.
Elige 1 audiolibro al mes de nuestra colección inigualable.
Escucha todo lo que quieras de entre miles de audiolibros, Originals y podcasts incluidos.
Accede a ofertas y descuentos exclusivos.
Premium Plus se renueva automáticamente por $14.95/mes después de 3 meses. Cancela en cualquier momento.

Quichotte

De: Salman Rushdie
Narrado por: Vikas Adam
Prueba por $0.00

$0.00/mes despues de 3 meses. La oferta termina el 31 de julio, 2025 a las 11:59PM PT. Cancela en cualquier momento.

Compra ahora por $22.50

Compra ahora por $22.50

Confirma la compra
la tarjeta con terminación
Cambiar método de pago
Al confirmar tu compra, aceptas las Condiciones de Uso de Audible y el Aviso de Privacidad de Amazon. Impuestos a cobrar según aplique.
Cancelar

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” (Time) from internationally best-selling author Salman Rushdie

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

“Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming...a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium - a way of feeling and a way of telling. Love and language.” (Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review)

Named One of The Best Books of The Year by Time and NPR

Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.

Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the listener on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie's work, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

Praise for Quichotte

“Brilliant...a perfect fit for a moment of transcontinental derangement.” (Financial Times)

“Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism.... The narration is fleet of foot, always one step ahead of the reader - somewhere between a pinball machine and a three-dimensional game of snakes and ladders.... This novel can fly, it can float, it’s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot.” (The Sunday Times)

“Quichotte [is] an updating of Cervantes’ story that proves to be an equally complicated literary encounter, jumbling together a chivalric quest, a satire on Trump’s America and a whole lot of postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys.... This is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind.” (The Times, UK)

©2019 Salman Rushdie (P)2019 Random House Audio Ficción Ficción Literaria Género Ficción Literatura y Ficción Realismo Mágico Sagas Fantasía Mágico Divertido Ingenioso Para reflexionar

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Rushdie weaves together all of his subjects, sharply observed, with extraordinary elegance and wit.... Cervantes’s hero, who is eternally modern perhaps because he is essentially anti-contemporary, couldn’t be a more inspired transplant into the mad reality of the present day, which Rushdie sends up in terms both universal and highly specific, tragic and hilarious, strange but hauntingly familiar.... At least here’s something worth reading as civilization crumbles around us, before we succumb to our fates. Right?” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Quichotte is a novel that attempts to reflect back to us the total, crumbling insanity of living in a world unmoored from reality - that shows what happens when lies become as good as facts.... And if Quichotte drives you nuts, that’s fine. It’s meant to. It’s layered in such a way that you will lose yourself in the shifting reality of it.” (NPR)

“Quichotte, Rushdie’s Trump-era reworking of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, is a frantically inventive take on ‘the Age of Anything-Can-Happen’ we’ve endured these last few years. It’s a concoction of narratives within narratives that blends the latest news headlines with apocalyptic flights of fancy.... Rushdie doesn’t offer much hope for our dispiriting times. But in a frayed and feverish way, he captures their flavor exactly.” (The Boston Globe)

Featured Article: The Best Indian Authors to Listen to Right Now


"India," to quote actress and human rights activist Shabana Azmi, "is a country that lives in several centuries simultaneously." Just as those different time periods seem to coexist in one place, so do the voices of brilliant literary talents. Each of these writers and their works have contributed to help the world better understand this expansive country and its beautiful, multifaceted culture, whether it be from within India’s own borders or through the memory of its customs and traditions from distant continents.

Featured Article The Best Indian Authors to Listen to Right Now
Intertwined Storylines • Masterful Narration • Magical Realism • Cultural Commentary • Emotional Range
Con calificación alta para:
Todas las estrellas
Más relevante  
I usually don't read a lot of fiction, and I was good with the start for the journey of the beloved. Then it got kinda weird and lines were blurred. But, in the end, I guess that is the point?

A Break From Reality

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
The first few chapters were hard to get the context but as I progressed it became clear and interesting. I loved the way the stories were intertwined, and touched everything that is happening right now.

interesting spin to the current situation

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
I REALLY LIKED ALL THE REFERENCES TO OUR CURRENT SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE STORY

UNIQUE BUT ENTERTAINING

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
I wanted to like this story but the narrator was a struggle to listen to and the story itself lost me. Maybe I would have different comments if I read the book.

A struggle - not my thing.

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
I’ve put off reviewing this book since I finished it a week ago. That is because I don’t have the reviewing skills to do it justice. So let me just say that was far and away my favorite bo

Five Stars Re Not Enough

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
I like Rushdie's writing a lot. but this is not my favorite. it is rooted in modern cultural climate, and I suspect this book will have more impact in a future read. but I found this work less satisfying and engaging.

not my favorite

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
I mean what could be more appropriate when you’re seeking than don Quixote. Beautifully lyric, unpredictable and complex

Perfect read for my soul-searching roadtip

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Two deranged soap operas, a story within a story, echo one another, as they address madness, obsession, fantasy and escapism in today's world of synthetic pop culture. It is a very busy book that mixes all sorts of genres, but the mood remains mostly comical. The science fiction aspect of it reminded me a bit of Kurt Vonnegut. There are references to Cervantes' masterpiece, of course, but let's just say that this is a Quixote from a distant parallel universe, with little similarity in style with the original.

Rushdie explores in the book violence and mental health issues in the US. One of its characters is a crazy stalker who carries a gun that speaks to him seductively. Alas, not long after publishing the book, the author suffered a knife attack in New York State by the hand of a mindless Shiite fanatic who hunted him down. Thankfully, he survived the stabbing.

I actually loved some of the feverishly kaleidoscopic passages and the sprinkled nuggets of wisdom, but they are too few and far between. Some parts drag on and by the time that I reached the second half, I was already looking forward to the ending. I’m glad to have listened to the audiobook, but I think it could have used more editing.

The narrator, Vikas Adam, is as hyperactive as the job demands and is amazing at producing all kinds of different voices and accents.

Bloated, with flashes of brilliance

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
The most balanced tale within a tale (within a tale?) I have read/listened to. A master course on writing but more fun to experience. Thank you

Sublime

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
First, a word about Vikas Adam, the Audible narrator of this fascinating book. It is the best narration of the 134 Audible books I have heard. He has a remarkable way of giving voice to multiple characters (male and female) speaking mostly English with accents of Hindi (what Mr. Rushdie calls Southern Asia), England, Italy and various American inflections including New York, California and rural middle America. I have no idea how he does it, but he is a genius and the Audible book is worth a listen just for his skills.
Mr. Rushdie’s is one of the world’s great English writers and this book blends so many themes not the least of which is Cervantes’ Don Quixote which after the Bible is the most translated book in the world. Like Don Quixote it follows a man driven by the impossible: a love of a woman he has never met but whom he sees on television. She is an Indian Oprah Winfrey who has become famous in the United States after a quixotic life in India. The characters are numerous and memorable, some imagined, and some brought to life from nothing. The story weaves from the story’s characters to the author/creator of the characters, his life and beyond. It is a wonderful journey, unique and in many ways. The story sometimes mirrors Mr. Rushdie’s life and experiences. At many times one wonders where he is going and why, but that is the point. It is at times funny, frustrating and overly complex, but Mr. Rushdie’s style is always wondrous and delightful. It is well worth the trip.

The Best Narration I have Ever Heard

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Ver más opiniones