Salman Rushdie's six favorite surrealist books

Salman Rushdie's latest novel is Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.

One of the author's six favorite surrealist books, as shared at The Week magazine:
The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino

This is a fable, set in the time of Charlemagne, about an empty suit of armor that believes itself to be a knight and keeps itself going by willpower and strict adherence to the rules of