Salman Rushdie on Don Quixote & Shakespeare

Best known for the novels Midnight's Children (1981) and The Satanic Verses (1988), for which he was accused of blasphemy against Islam, Salman Rushdie's novel Quichotte (2019) is a dazzling homage to Cervantes' Don Quixote, the 17th century mock epic that is a founding work of Western literature and the most-translated book after the Bible.

[@ramdularsingh1435]

Here is Salman Rushdie discussing literature of Shakespeare's height ! Is it possible to do it even now when written words are almost sin to read and understand !? I think it's no longer so. We have to innovate another way to prosper our beloved literature today.

[@erniereyes1994]

Shakespeare is one of those writers where, if you dismiss him for simply being an "old dead white guy," you've only presented the argument of a pouty child. If you don't like or "understand" Shakespeare, the answer quite simply is that you're not a mature enough reader yet or that you haven't lived enough or are so politicized that you're literally brainwashed. Feel free to criticize the John Updikes or the Philip Roths or the Saul Bellows...
... but Shakespeare is another beast entirely.