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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... mean I did not believe them. When I heard about the samudra manthan, the tale of how the great 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 ...
... mean I did not believe them. When I heard about the samudra manthan, the tale of how the great 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 ...
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... means feel free to tell the heated tales of your own personal Yoknapatawpha, and you'll probably find you never need to leave home at all. But unless what you know is really interesting, don't write about it. Write what you don't know.
... means feel free to tell the heated tales of your own personal Yoknapatawpha, and you'll probably find you never need to leave home at all. But unless what you know is really interesting, don't write about it. Write what you don't know.
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... means, because I certainly do not. “What's the use of stories that aren't even true?” is a question that could no doubt form the basis of an interesting lecture about Lost.) Even if we do not live wholly in our imaginations, we all like ...
... means, because I certainly do not. “What's the use of stories that aren't even true?” is a question that could no doubt form the basis of an interesting lecture about Lost.) Even if we do not live wholly in our imaginations, we all like ...
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... means we use to talk about human life, our way of reaching the truth by making things up. And we are the only species that, from the beginning, has used stories to explain ourselves to ourselves. Sitting in Plato's cave, men told ...
... means we use to talk about human life, our way of reaching the truth by making things up. And we are the only species that, from the beginning, has used stories to explain ourselves to ourselves. Sitting in Plato's cave, men told ...
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Proteus | |
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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