Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020Random House Publishing Group, 25. maí 2021 - 368 síður Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century—including many texts never previously in print—by the Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Salman Rushdie is celebrated as “a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker), illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time. Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of subjects, he delves into the nature of storytelling as a human need, and what emerges is, in myriad ways, a love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to him, whether on the page or in person. He delves deep into the nature of “truth,” revels in the vibrant malleability of language and the creative lines that can join art and life, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism, and censorship. Enlivened on every page by Rushdie’s signature wit and dazzling voice, Languages of Truth offers the author’s most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us on an exhilarating tour of his own exuberant and fearless imagination. |
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... example, is the almost complete absence of religion. Lots of sex, much mischief, a great deal of deviousness; monsters, jinnis, giant rocs; at times, enormous quantities of blood and gore; but no God. This is why censorious.
... example, is the almost complete absence of religion. Lots of sex, much mischief, a great deal of deviousness; monsters, jinnis, giant rocs; at times, enormous quantities of blood and gore; but no God. This is why censorious.
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... example, there's a legend that King Solomon possessed one that could change its size and become big enough to transport an army: the world's first air force. But in The Arabian Nights, all carpets remain passive and inert.) This great ...
... example, there's a legend that King Solomon possessed one that could change its size and become big enough to transport an army: the world's first air force. But in The Arabian Nights, all carpets remain passive and inert.) This great ...
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... example, women. Some of the most brilliant practitioners and critics of the modern wonder tale, like the novelist and story writer Angela Carter and the British critic and novelist Marina Warner, have eloquently investigated the place ...
... example, women. Some of the most brilliant practitioners and critics of the modern wonder tale, like the novelist and story writer Angela Carter and the British critic and novelist Marina Warner, have eloquently investigated the place ...
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... example, where the sorceress Circe can be found ensnaring Odysseus and his men, turning many of his crew into pigs. Circe also traveled to India and showed up in the Katha Sarit Sagara of Somadeva, the same story compendium to which I ...
... example, where the sorceress Circe can be found ensnaring Odysseus and his men, turning many of his crew into pigs. Circe also traveled to India and showed up in the Katha Sarit Sagara of Somadeva, the same story compendium to which I ...
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... example of Saint Joan of Arc demonstrates. I too was writing about a woman walking along the knife-edge of this vulnerable power and eventually having to run for her life, and I was struck by how much of the literature of the fantastic ...
... example of Saint Joan of Arc demonstrates. I too was writing about a woman walking along the knife-edge of this vulnerable power and eventually having to run for her life, and I was struck by how much of the literature of the fantastic ...
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Heraclitus | |
Another Writers Beginnings | |
Philip Roth | |
Kurt Vonnegut and SlaughterhouseFive | |
Samuel Becketts Novels | |
Cervantes and Shakespeare | |
Hans Christian Andersen | |
Very Well Then I Contradict Myself | |
The Pen and the Sword | |
PEN World Voices Opening Night 2017 | |
The Emperor Akbar and the Making | |
Letters | |
Bhupen Khakhar 19342003 | |
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar | |
Harold Pinter 19302008 | |
Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews Vol IV | |
Adaptation | |
From Saligia to Oblomov | |
Kara Walker at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles 2009 | |
The Unbelievers Christmas | |
A Personal Engagement with the Coronavirus | |
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