Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020Random House Publishing Group, 25. maí 2021 - 368 síđur 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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... minds of Indians and relevant to their daily lives, in the way the gods of the Greeks and Romans were once alive in Western imaginations. Once, and not so long ago, it was possible in the lands of the West to allude to the story of the ...
... minds of Indians and relevant to their daily lives, in the way the gods of the Greeks and Romans were once alive in Western imaginations. Once, and not so long ago, it was possible in the lands of the West to allude to the story of the ...
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... minds. But the fact is, they had a point. There are indeed in that book several references to sex, and the ... mind, this call is an excellent thing and well worth responding to, but you can see how people who dislike music ...
... minds. But the fact is, they had a point. There are indeed in that book several references to sex, and the ... mind, this call is an excellent thing and well worth responding to, but you can see how people who dislike music ...
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... mind: J. M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan to please the Llewelyn Davies boys, A. A. Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh about his son Christopher Robin Milne's favorite toys, and Lewis Carroll wrote Alice for Alice. But by the time of Through the ...
... mind: J. M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan to please the Llewelyn Davies boys, A. A. Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh about his son Christopher Robin Milne's favorite toys, and Lewis Carroll wrote Alice for Alice. But by the time of Through the ...
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... mind - returned over and over , one might almost say obsessively , to the theme . When I wrote my novel The Enchantress of Florence , I tried to look at what it might have meant for actual women to be thought capable of such double ...
... mind - returned over and over , one might almost say obsessively , to the theme . When I wrote my novel The Enchantress of Florence , I tried to look at what it might have meant for actual women to be thought capable of such double ...
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... mind but only through the work itself, the inexhaustible, inexplicable work. He fell silent because he had nothing to say, he burned the years that were left to him as if they were manuscripts, and he gave no sign that he minded; up ...
... mind but only through the work itself, the inexhaustible, inexplicable work. He fell silent because he had nothing to say, he burned the years that were left to him as if they were manuscripts, and he gave no sign that he minded; up ...
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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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