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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... versions of the Ramayana, the exiled Lord Ram and his brother Lakshman leave Sita alone in their forest dwelling one day while they hunt a golden deer, not knowing that the deer is actually a rakshasa, a kind of demon, in disguise.
... versions of the Ramayana, the exiled Lord Ram and his brother Lakshman leave Sita alone in their forest dwelling one day while they hunt a golden deer, not knowing that the deer is actually a rakshasa, a kind of demon, in disguise.
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I'm speaking now of serious fiction, not the other kind. In the other kind of fiction, fictiveness is alive and well, it's always twilight, people are playing hunger games, and Leonardo da Vinci is just a code.
I'm speaking now of serious fiction, not the other kind. In the other kind of fiction, fictiveness is alive and well, it's always twilight, people are playing hunger games, and Leonardo da Vinci is just a code.
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If he's right, the realist tradition is doomed to a kind of endless repetitiveness. For innovation, for newness—and remember that the word “novel” contains the idea of newness—we must turn to irrealism and find new ways of approaching ...
If he's right, the realist tradition is doomed to a kind of endless repetitiveness. For innovation, for newness—and remember that the word “novel” contains the idea of newness—we must turn to irrealism and find new ways of approaching ...
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Song is the human voice used in an unnatural way—a way that not all human beings, myself included, can use it—to create the kind of meaning that beauty instills in us. Story is the unnatural means we use to talk about human life, ...
Song is the human voice used in an unnatural way—a way that not all human beings, myself included, can use it—to create the kind of meaning that beauty instills in us. Story is the unnatural means we use to talk about human life, ...
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This bringing together of two kinds of female power, erotic power and occult power, in the image of the beautiful witch— this replacement of the hag by the enchantress—reached its peak in the High Renaissance, when Ariosto ...
This bringing together of two kinds of female power, erotic power and occult power, in the image of the beautiful witch— this replacement of the hag by the enchantress—reached its peak in the High Renaissance, when Ariosto ...
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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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Another Writers Beginnings | |
Philip Roth | |
Kurt Vonnegut and SlaughterhouseFive | |
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Cervantes and Shakespeare | |
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Very Well Then I Contradict Myself | |
The Pen and the Sword | |
PEN World Voices Opening Night 2017 | |
The Emperor Akbar and the Making | |
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An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar | |
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Kara Walker at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles 2009 | |
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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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