QUIJOTISMUL LUI SALMAN RUSHDIE ȘI ILUZIILE MULTICULTURALISMULUI ÎN ROMANUL QUICHOTTE
Salman Rushdie's Quixotic Fiction and Multiculturalism Illusions in his novel “Quichotte”

Summary/Abstract: This article represents an analysis of the novel Quichotte (2019, translated into Romanian in 2021) by Salman Rushdie, based on the "quixotism" interpretation and the Knight of the Sorrowful Figure image as fundamental metaphors of the contemporary world. The concept of "quixotism", which denotes exaggerated idealism and inability to distinguish between reality and fiction, is related to the Rushdian notion of "sperectomy", of hope for good gradual loss, which the researcher Chiara Sereni masterfully analyzes in her work Salman Rushdie. La storia come sperectomia (2010). A novel of migration, metafiction, postcolonial rewriting of Don Quixote, satire, parody and trans-semiotic pastiche, Quichotte transposes Salman Rushdie's battle with the multiculturalism ideology windmills and his defeatism concerning humanity's ability to achieve the ideal of harmony and tolerance. The study demonstrates that the novel Quichotte, which brings back to discussion the quixotic madness theme, and with it, the conflict between ideal and reality, is a bitter conclusion made by Salman Rushdie at the end of a lifelong battle, led in the name of the utopian ideal of an open and inclusive world, where people, ethnicities, religions and cultures would coexist in a fruitful and beneficial mutual enrichment.

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