Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「To prepare for his new novel, Salman Rushdie watched a lot of reality TV. ⠀ ⠀ “I had to do it as a way of finding out what’s in people’s heads,” says the 72-year-old author, of tuning in to shows like “The Bachelor.”⠀ ⠀ Reality TV is part of "a larger derangement," he says, a breakdown in the division between the real and the unreal—which comes crashing together in the dark, frenetic world of his new book "Quichotte.” ⠀ ⠀ "We live in a moment in which truth is stranger than fiction, and so fiction has to decide how strange it needs to be in order to get close to the truth," Rushdie says. ⠀ ⠀ "Quichotte,” his 14th novel, is a retelling of the 17th-century Cervantes classic "Don Quixote” using Rushdie’s trademark magical realism. It features an Indian-born salesman with a "peculiar form of brain damage" that leaves him unable to distinguish between reality and “reality.” The character falls in love with a celebrity talk-show host and sets on a quest across America with an imaginary son named Sancho.⠀ ⠀ "I thought, 'If Cervantes were around now, what would his target be?'" Rushdie says.⠀ ⠀ Read more at the link in our bio.⠀ ⠀ 📷: @bradtrent for @wsjphotos」9月5日 3時32分