Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020Newly 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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god Indra churned the Milky Way, using the fabled Mount Mandara as his churning stick, to force the giant ocean of milk in the sky to give up its nectar, amrita, the nectar of immortality, I began to see the stars in a new way.
god Indra churned the Milky Way, using the fabled Mount Mandara as his churning stick, to force the giant ocean of milk in the sky to give up its nectar, amrita, the nectar of immortality, I began to see the stars in a new way.
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But the demon king Ravana disguises himself as a beggar and comes to Sita's door asking for alms, and she crosses the line to give him what he wants. This is how he captures her and spirits her away to his kingdom of Lanka, ...
But the demon king Ravana disguises himself as a beggar and comes to Sita's door asking for alms, and she crosses the line to give him what he wants. This is how he captures her and spirits her away to his kingdom of Lanka, ...
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... able to start believing in them in the way in which we believe in literature—that is to say, more profoundly, the double belief/unbelief with which we approach fiction, “so and not so.” And at once they began to give up their deepest.
... able to start believing in them in the way in which we believe in literature—that is to say, more profoundly, the double belief/unbelief with which we approach fiction, “so and not so.” And at once they began to give up their deepest.
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And at once they began to give up their deepest meanings, meanings previously obscured by faith. The great myths, Greek, Roman, Nordic, have survived the deaths of the religions that once sustained them because of the astonishing ...
And at once they began to give up their deepest meanings, meanings previously obscured by faith. The great myths, Greek, Roman, Nordic, have survived the deaths of the religions that once sustained them because of the astonishing ...
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... at the height of his career, to give up writing and acting and theater managing and Southwark, the lowlife zone of theaters and gambling dens and whorehouses and cockfights, which he must have loved, because even after he became the ...
... at the height of his career, to give up writing and acting and theater managing and Southwark, the lowlife zone of theaters and gambling dens and whorehouses and cockfights, which he must have loved, because even after he became the ...
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Umsögn notanda - bookboy804 - LibraryThingEngaging, stylish, beautifully written essays on language, storytelling, authors; essays derived from PEN related speeches, introductions, commencement addresses; essays on visual artists. Introduced and reintroduced me to wonderful authors and artists, and engaging ideas. Highly recommended. Read full review
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| Titill | Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 |
| Höfundur | Salman Rushdie |
| Útgefandi | Random House Publishing Group, 2021 |
| ISBN | 0593133188, 9780593133187 |
| Length | 368 síður |
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